>anta Clara Galley 
California 



Mrs. C. L. Place 

Real Estate Investments 

Homes in Palo Alto 

Information concerning land for orchards, 
dairying, poultry or alfalfa ranches, etc. in 

the Santa Clara Valley 
113 Circle, Palo Alto, Cal. 

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SANTA CLARA 
VALLEY 



% promotion fWaga^tne 

published by the 

Woman's Club of Palo Alto 

Palo Alto, California 




Printed by 

Times Publishing Company 

January, 191 i 



Preface 




HARLES DICKENS says, "Prefaces 
are seldom read, though continually 
written." Such being the case, the 
Woman's Club of Palo Alto, the com- 
piler of the "Santa Clara Valley," will 
hold fast to this time-honored custom. 
The Palo Alto Woman's Club extends greetings to all 
home-seekers. The club offers this contribution to pro- 
motion literature in order to swell the number of answers 
to the questions: Where is the Santa Clara Valley, and 
what are its attractions ? 

No one can read through the magazine without realiz- 
ing the great scenic beauty of the Valley, and the charm of 
its romantic past. 

The wonderful climatic advantages of Santa Clara 
Valley over any other part of the state of California, are 
truthfully and clearly set forth. All articles appearing in 
the magazine are characterized by fairness, and a desire 
to give to the possible home-seeker full information. 

The Woman's Club thanks its hundreds of kind 
friends, who have made the "Santa Clara Valley" possible. 
It thanks them for the work, time and money spent on it. 
All the contributors to the magazine will feel amply 
repaid for their efforts, if its mission as a promoter be ful- 
filled. 



Copyrighted January, 191 i 

by 

Woman's Club of Palo Alto 

Palo Alto, Cal. 



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CONTENTS 



Page 
Cover Design Prof. A. B. Clark of Stanford University. 

The Santa Clara Valley 7 



San Jc 



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Palo Alto 

Sunnyvale — Where Is Iti 



.67 



Mayfield 73 

Saratoga 75 

Mountain View 76 

The Juvenile Court 78 

Women's Clubs of Santa Clara County 80 








The Sun-kissed Valley of Santa Clara 

A Glorious Natural ParK 

Its Cardinal Features are 

Stanford University and The University Realty Company 

Country Homes 

Fifty minutes from San Francisco 



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The Santa Clara Valley 



"WHERE IS THE SANTA CLARA VALLEY? I HAVE NEVER 
HEARD OF IT." 

UCH was the remark of a Chicago man to a traveling sales- 
man who recently established his family in this valley and 
spends all his spare breath in making it known to others who 
might enjoy its delights. 

The question is easily answered. Stretching some hun- 
dred miles to the southeast from San Francisco, this 
valley lies between the low Santa Cruz range, which separates it on the west 
from the Pacific ocean, and the Mt. Hamilton range and San Francisco bay, 
which form its eastern boundary. 




WHAT IS THE VALLEY LIKE? 

As one travels from San Francisco down the valley, its beauty is apparent. 
To the right, the wooded mountain range ; to the left, for twenty miles, the 
beautiful San Francisco bay ; then, beyond, on the left, the Mt. Hamilton range. 
Glance at the accompanying map and you will see that, for miles, we travel 
through a country studded with magnificent estates, whose existence is hidden 
by the beautiful live and white oaks which are so great a feature of the first 
forty miles of this journey. On either hand, they dot the floor of the valley 
and form most charming settings for the beautiful homes. Gertrude Atherton, 
in her California stories, refers to these oaks and the appreciation of the beauty 
of this valley by the early millionaires who founded these estates — Flood, 
Fair, Stanford, Sharon and many others — who drove to and fro, from their San 
Francisco offices behind their smashing turnouts. Today, the horses are replaced 
by steam and electric railroads, and by the speeding automobile, which finds 
the perfect county road reaching down the valley a delight. These three lines 
of travel, electric, steam and county road, practically parallel each other along 
the floor of the valley. 

Beyond Palo Alto and the estate of Stanford University, the scene is 
changed from large estates to vineyards and orchards of apricot, peach, prune, 
olives and cherries on our right hand, and stretches of alfalfa ranches and 
market gardens on our left. Toward San Jose, the valley reaches its greatest 



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width, and a hint of the beaut} - of the blossoming orchards is given in the ac- 
companying picture. These orchards and vineyards climb the foothills on 
either side, and among them are beautiful homes, from which are superb views 
of the valley and bay. Beyond San Jose for some distance we still are passing 
through orchards, hut, at the farther end of the valley, are the larger grain, 




grazing and sugar beet ranches, containing thousands of acres that have not 
yet been subdivided to provide orchard room for the newcomer. Bayard 
Taylor, whose travels gave him a broad basis for comparison, said that this 
valley was one of the three most beautiful valleys in the world. 

WHAT KIND OF CLIMATE HAS THE SANTA CLARA VALLEY? 

Taking the year through, the climate is most satisfactory. There is no 
intense heat in the summer, and there is enough frost in the winter to be 
exhilarating. The subjoined meteorological report for the past year gives 



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statistics for San Jose, which is the center of the valley, about fifty miles from 
San Francisco. The column of extreme maximum temperatures shows a range 
from 66 degrees to 100 degrees, and in that of minimum temperatures of 26 
degrees to 43 degrees. No matter how warm the day, the night is cool enough 
lor a blanket. This is easily seen by the low records for the summer months: 

Annual Meteorological Summary for the Year Ending December 31, 1909. 

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IS THE CLIMATE THAT OF THE ENTIRE VALLEY? 

Not exactly. The climate of the whole state is peculiar by reason of the 
topography and the proximity to the ocean, and one can find a variety in 
climate within a few miles that is astonishing to the newcomer. As to this 
valley — in San Francisco, one finds the stimulating sea climate, cool, with 
brisk winds. The trade winds blow from the ocean from March to September 
and make San Francisco quite as cool in summer as in winter. Down the 
valley the climate is modified by the Santa Cruz mountain range, which pro- 
tects it from the severity of these sea winds, and by the San Francisco bay, 
which prevents its becoming too warm. There is often, in summer, a differ- 
ence of 10 degrees between San Jose and Palo Alto. 

HOW MUCH RAIN DO YOU HAVE, AND DOES IT RAIN ALL THE 
TIME DURING THE RAINY SEASON? 

The average rainfall varies a little in different parts of the valley. San 
Jose has a greater rainfall than Palo Alto, and more rain falls in the foothills 
than on the floor of the valley. The total rainfall given in the above report is 
a little more than the average. 

The Supervisors' report answers the latter part of the above question. 
Most of the rain falls during December, January, February and March, but it 
does not rain all the time, as the report shows. The greatest number of days 
in one month that .04 inches, or more, of rain fell, was nineteen in January, 
December having twelve rainy days. 



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IS THE CLIMATE ENERVATING? 

On the contrary, it is a stimulating cli- 
mate. Several families came to Palo Alto 
from Pasadena a year ago and without ex- 
ception some member of each family said, 
with a deep inhalation, on arriving, 
"What good air you have here!" There 
is a peculiar quality in the air which is 
both balmy and exhilarating. There is 
enough frost in the winter to make the 
mornings snappy, while the midday sun- 
shine keeps the roses blossoming and 
strawberries ripening through it all. 

WHAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNI- 
TIES DOES THE VALLEY OF- 
FER? 

The chief industry of the valley is agri- 
culture, although there is some grazing, 
some mining and a beginning in manu- 
facturing. The farming opportunities are 
varied, as may be seen by reference to 
the map, which shows the regions in 
which different kinds of farming are car- 
ried on. The business of farming is very 
different here from what it is in the East. 
There is no severe winter from which to 
protect ourselves, our plants and animals. 
There is no rain in summer to interfere 
with our plans. The planting and har- 
vesting seasons must be learned anew. 

IS IRRIGATION NECESSARY? 

For alfalfa, small fruits and market 
gardens, Yes! For orchards and grain, 

No! 

WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF WATER 
SUPPLY FOR IRRIGATION? 

Artesian wells. On our left as we 
ride from Palo Alto to San Jose and be- 
yond, we see the green alfalfa fields and 
market gardens, and, here and there, the 
stand-pipes of the artesian wells which 
rise about three feet above the ground. 
In many places we see the wells uncapped 




12 SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 

and the water rising a Fool or two above the pipes and Flowing in six-inch 
to eight-inch streams through the irrigating ditches. In the Foothills are 
numerous springs and small streams, and everywhere are wells pumped by 
gasoline engines or windmills. 

WHAT ARE THE CHIEF ORCHARD PRODUCTS OF THE VALLEY? 

A glance at the accompanying extract from the annual report of the Board 
of Supervisors of Santa Clara County for 1909-10 answers this question and 
gives the volume of this business. In money value, apricots lead, though 
twice as great a quantity of prunes were grown. The price of prunes for this 
year was unusually low. 

Number of Fruit Trees and Vines. Product. 

Trees. Bearing. Total. Amount, lbs. Value. 

Apple 17,200 40,700 1,500,000 $ 80,000 

Apricot 544,000 555,300 40,000,000 400,000 

Cherry 157,700 159,600 5,625,000 1,785,000 

Fig 1,700 2,410 75,000 2,500 

Lemon 2,600 2,920 1,620 

Nectarine 1,000 1,520 

Olive 10,800 15,300 600,000 20,000 

Orange 1,250 1,955 1,800 

Peach 592,500 632,800 35,000,000 350,000 

Pear 126,200 141,750 9,500,000 200,000 

Plum 271,000 291,700 

Prune 5,673,900 80,000,000 160,000 

Ouince 2,920 200,000 10,000 

Almond 18,100 22,852 

Walnut 1 1,025 13,825 

IS PRUNE GROWING A PROFITABLE INDUSTRY? 

It depends on the rancher to a great extent. A man who has several 
ranches in this valley told me that his ten acres of prunes paid him better than 
any other orchard he had, because the cost of labor was much less than in 
other orchards. The prunes do not require thinning nor picking. A pioneer 
and successful prune grower says : 

"The French prune orchards of the Santa Clara valley are the largest in 
the world. When in full bloom, between March 15th and May 1st,, the great 
sun-lit valley, when viewed from the surrounding foothills and mountains, 
looks like a vast sea of white blossoms, which fill the air with a delicate frag- 
rance. A great traveler on his first view exclaimed : 'This is the most 
beautiful spring scene I have ever witnessed.' There are four million, five 
hundred thousand full bearing prune trees in the valley, which produce about 
two-thirds of all the French prunes in the United States. 

"The soil of certain sections of the valley is better adapted to the raising 
of prunes than other sections, and this is evidenced by the larger yield per 
acre and the larger size of the prune. The prunes of this valley contain a 
larger per cent of sugar than those of France or of any other section of Cali- 
fornia, and for this reason as well as for their superior flavor, command one- 
fourth cent per pound more in the eastern market than prunes produced in 
other sections of California. 



1 I SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 

"The average yearly income from the prune crop is $2,500,000. The prunes 
begin to ripen about August 1st and the picking and drying in the sun on 
trays lakes from about August 10th to September 15th. They are allowed 
to fully ripen, fill with sugar and drop to the ground. They are then picked 
from the ground and hauled in 40-lb. boxes to the drying plant, put on large 
trays and cured in the perpetual sunshine. No thinning of the fruit on the 
trees and no picking from the branches is required, as with other fruits. 

"Full bearing prune orchards of 10, 20, 30 acres, range in price from $300 
to $600 per acre, according to the character of improvements. If one prefers 
an orchard on account of its fine bearing qualities, rather than for expensive 
houses and barns, he can find one for $300 per acre, while those with improve- 
ments would cost $500 per acre or more. 

"There are small orchards that have paid no less for ten years past than an 
average of 20 per cent net on $300 per acre. This is true of my orchard of 
12 1-4 acres on Stilling road between Cupertino and Saratoga, as the bills of 
the packers who have purchased the crop, and those who did the work will 
verify. VV. A. COULTER." 

Another grower says : 

"I have been engaged in the orchard business in this location for the past 
fifteen years. Three years ago I bought a ten-acre prune orchard just in 
bearing, and in two years after buying, cleared $2,500. The place was valued 
at $2,800. A friend of mine from the East bought ten acres at the same time. 
This party hired all the work done and has paid for the place in three years. I 
have another friend who cleared $1,350 on five acres of peaches last season. 
The orchard business is not hard to learn if one will use a little judgment. 
Most of the orchardists in this valley will cheerfully teach those who are 
unfamiliar with the business, thus rendering great assistance to the newcomer. 

CHAS. E. DEANE, Morgan Hill." 

WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS OF CHERRY GROWING? 

As to the profits in this phase of orcharding the following statements 
made by the owner of a very fine cherry orchard, will give some idea. 

"The statement is frequently made by people in positions to know, that 
the finest cherries in the world grow in California. It is also well known that 
the finest in California are raised in Santa Clara county, therefore we 
feel that we are not claiming too much to say that we lead the world in the 
production of cherries. 

"A drive through the length and breadth of this great valley, say on 
'Blossom Day,' might lead an inquirer to ask, 'If this is the case, why so manv 
prunes? Why not more cherries?' and the answer is that experience has 
proved only certain localities to be adapted to cherry growing. There are 
many cherry belts here and there over the valley where the cherry flourishes 
and yields abundantly, but outside these limits they are a failure. In some 
places the trees will grow to a great size, but never bear. I know of trees 
fifteen years old of great size and beauty that have never produced over fifty 
pounds of fruit. Given the conditions they require and there is no fruit more 
pleasing to the eye or profitable to the grower than cherries. They require an 



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abundance of water and, as is the case with most orchards, reward one in 
proportion to the care bestowed upon them. They need little pruning and 
will stand a good deal of frost. Being the first fruit in market, they usually 
command a good price. Most of the crop is sent to the great Eastern market, 
the best varieties for shipping being the Tartarian, Royal Ann, Bing and 
Black Republican. 

"Picking usually begins about the 20th of May and continues from four 
to six weeks, depending on how warm the weather is. The cherries are taken 
to the packing houses in town to be put up for market; and the packing 
is mostly done by girls or women. MRS. A. B. CLEMENT." 

Mrs. Adelia K. Thomas of Hicks Ave., near the Willows, a suburb of San 
Jose, sold three acres of cherries on the trees for $900 net. They were of the 
Black Tartarian and a few Black Republican variety. 

Mr. Harvis of the AVillows received $2,000 for the cherries on about 9 1-2 
acres. In both cases the people wdio bought the cherries did all the picking 
and work in connection with the marketing. 

DOES IT PAY TO RAISE PEACHES IN THE VALLEY? 

Judging by what Mr. Di Eiore says, it does. He writes that he is the 
owner of a fruit ranch near San Jose of about thirteen acres, set out to 1,000 
peach trees of the Tuscan and Phillipps Cling variety, which have netted him 
in the past five years $26,000. 

ARE PEARS A GOOD CROP FOR THE VALLEY? 

Excellent. No better pears are produced anywhere than in this valley. By 
reference to the annual report of the Supervisors of Santa Clara valley for the 
year 1909-10 on fruits and vegetables we see that the value of this product for 
the last year was $200,000. The following signed statement by Mr. Weston 
shows what has been done in this line : 

"My ranch near Santa Clara contains 40 1-4 acres, 37 acres of which is in 
an orchard, containing 3,465 Bartlett pear trees. 

Produced during the year 1910. 
410 tons No. 1 canning pears, sold to the California Canners Association. 
32 tons No. 2 canning pears, sold to the California Bayside Canning Co. 
73 tons No. 3 dried pears, windfalls, sold to Ivancovitch & Co. 
5 tons shipped to San Francisco, picked too late for the canneries. 
Total, 520 tons. 

"In 1908 the same orchard produced its heaviest crop, 555 tons. The 
largest financial yield was in 1907, when the crop of 398 1-2 tons sold for 
$26,646. (Signed) B. F. WESTON." 

IS A DIVERSIFIED ORCHARD BETTER THAN PUTTING ALL THE 
LAND INTO ONE KIND OF FRUIT? 

Yes, if the soil is adapted to different kinds. The government has issued 
an excellent soil map of this valley and every progressive rancher has his soil 
analyzed in order to ascertain what crops it is fitted to raise. 

The subjoined statement shows something of the way crops are combined : 
"My orchard at Berryessa contains 54 acres, planted as follows : 10 acres 



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cherries, 800 trees; 13 acres each of apricots and peaches, 1,000 trees of each; 
14 acres of prunes, 1,200 trees; 4 acres in grapes. 

"This year the cherry crop amounted to 40 tons; apricots, 160 tons; 
peaches. 110 tons; prunes, 70 tons. T estimate the grapes will amount to 
about 20 tons. F, DI FIORE, Berryessa, Cal." 

Cherries sold during 1910 from 5 to 8 cents per pound ; apricots, dried, (5 
pounds green equivalent to 1 pound dried) sold, dried, at from 8 to 11 cents 
per pound; peaches sold from $17.50 to $22 per ton; grapes from $12 to $15 
per ton. Prunes sold at $75 to $125 per ton, dried, depending on size. These 
prices are the open market prices and are extremely conservative ; thus it is 
easy to figure that the above ranch is making independence for its owner. 

A man with a mixed orchard in the foothills writes : 

"In May of 1908 I bought my ranch of 14 acres, which lies on the western 
side of the Santa Clara valley close to the foothills south of Los Gatos, for 
$2,500. In September of the same year I received $1,300 cash for the crop 
of prunes and apricots which I took off the place. It will exceed this income 
each year, as the trees are in much better condition than when I purchased 
the place. MANUEL C. CORCELL." 

Statement from M. B. Atkinson, Saratoga, Cal. : 

"I have 22 acres of orchard on Fruitvale avenue, 10 acres on Saratoga 
avenue and 53 acres on the Sierre and Piedmont roads. When I came to 
Santa Clara County I had business interests in Montreal which promised an 
assured income for myself and family of ten. I very much enjoyed living 
in this delightful valley, and incidentally bought 22 acres of orchard, upon 
which I paid down $2,500. Business reverses in Montreal completely wiped 
out all of my business interests. By application and effort I have been suc- 
cessful. I paid up $2,500 per year on the properties I secured. Off the ranch 
of 53 acres I cleared $3,500 in 1908. It will improve each year. The twenty- 
two-acre ranch has averaged 23 per cent income. The lowest amount it pro- 
duced was $1,600, and the highest $4,200. Off of fifteen apple trees, I gathered 
500 forty-pound boxes, and took forty-five off one tree. This is at the rate 
of about 1,200 boxes per acre." 

CAN NUTS BE RAISED IN THIS VALLEY? 

The conditions are excellent for nut culture. Anyone may, and many do, 
raise all the almonds and English walnuts for their own use on two or three 
trees in the back yard. As to general culture, the following statement by Mr. 
L. G. Hurlburt shows not only the facts in the case, but what can be done 
with a mixed ranch. 

Returns from L. G. Hurlburt orchard, near San Jose, Cal., of 25 acres — ■ 
475 prune trees, 550 walnut trees, 16 years old, French Mayette and Fran- 
quette variety. Also family variety orchard, grape-fruit, oranges, etc. 

Income. 

Almonds $ .50 

Walnuts 3,643.40 

Olives 7.50 

Apricots 150.27 

Prunes . 399.62 

Team rental 12.40 



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Expenditures. 

Horse feed $ 101.25. 

Water and irrigation 400.00 

Labor 807.16 

Repairs 13.30 

New trees set out 98.61 

Supplies, lime, sal soda, etc 2.75 

Net credit balance $2,814.99 

A large portion of the labor could be dispensed with if a man with a 
family devoted his entire time to the ranch. 

CAN APPLES BE RAISED HERE? 

Mr. Hollister gives his experiment and that of his neighbors in this line 
and the report of Mr. Hollister is good : 

"Along the Guadalupe river, Santa Clara County, the apple crop has been 
particularly productive, both as to yield in quantity and as to income produced. 
One man gathered from one acre 1,300 boxes, which he sold at the average of 
$1.00 per box. His adjoining neighbor gathered 1,500 boxes from one acre. 
When I came to Alviso nineteen years ago it was told to me privately that 
one man in the neighborhood who had a $9,000 'plaster' on his farm would 
never be able to pay it off. About that time his orchard began to yield, and 
for the last fifteen years the orchard has paid off the mortgage every year 
with a thousand dollars to spare. A few miles above here apricots and 
peaches are very successfully raised. 

MILES HOLLISTER, Alviso, Cal." 

The following statement appeared in a San Jose paper some time since : 

"W. H. Hannibal has just finished harvesting the apple crop from his 
orchard on the Montague road. The yield is very heavy and the quality fine. 
His Lauvers yielded 1,400 boxes per acre ; Pearmains, 1,500; Belle fleurs, 1,200, 
and early apples, 1,000. One White Winter Pearmain tree bore 40 boxes 
The trees are ten years old." 

DO SMALL FRUITS AND BERRIES PAY? 

Strawberries pay very well if the water supply is abundant. They need 
irrigation at least once a week during bearing season, which is often eleven 
months of the year. 

The owner of the ground prepares for the crop by plowing, preparing beds 
and blocking. He furnishes water, equipment of all kinds, including houses for 
the Japanese, who usually do the gardening. This is not as expensive as it 
seems, as a building costing about $100 will house from 10 to 15. He also 
hauls the berries to market and sells them. The Japanese foreman contracts 
with the owner to plant, cultivate and pick the berries. After getting the 
ground ready, the owner has no further work or care, excepting to sell the 
fruit. 

Eighteen thousand plants are set out on each acre, and they cost 
approximately $3.00 per 1,000. These the owner furnishes. The price for 
the fruit varies. Six dollars a chest is considered an average price, though I have 



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known as hig'h as $14.00 to be paid. There are usually three crops per year. 
Picking is begun at the end of March and continues until frost comes, which 
is oftentimes not heavy enough to stop the ripening before February. Well 
cared for beds last four and five years. An experienced grower told me that 
he had carried them as long as six years. The yield is from $600 to $1,000 
per acre. 

IS THIS VALLEY A GOOD PLACE FOR POULTRY RAISING? 

No place could be better. But until four years ago little had been done 
in this line. Since then poultry ranches have been established to a considerable 
extent where the soil is suitable. This is a particularly easy business to es- 
tablish and the stranger is surprised that everyone does not go into it, as 
prices are always good, eggs ranging from 25c to 30c in the summer and from 
50c to 65c in the winter. The prices of poultry are in the same proportion. 
Some appended statements by poultry growers give definite information of 
what has been done. 

Poultry and Eggs. 

Dozen. Value. 

Chickens 80,000 $258,000 

Ducks 7,000 28,000 

Geese 300 4,500 

Turkeys 500 10,000 

Eggs 1,000,000 250,000 

Total value $550,500 

"The returns from my White Leghorn poultry plant of three acres from 
Sept. 1st, 1909, to Sept. 1st, 1910, are as follows : 

Received for eggs and poultry $5,167.51 

Eggs put down in water glass 400.00 

Increased stock of poultry 750.00 

$6,317.51 
Total expense, feed and labor 3,276.73 

Net balance $3,040.78 

Eggs stored will sell for a high figure in December and January. We 
have had during the entire year an average of 1000 laying hens, making a net 
profit of $3 per hen. We figure one-half this profit from eggs and poultry sold 
at market prices or commonly called utility stock. The other half was obtained 
by selling fancy fowls and eggs for hatching for breeding purposes. Last year 
my birds earned $1.25 per head on a market basis. The increase this year is de- 
rived from the fact that feed has been a little cheaper, egg prices better and we 
bought our feed in larger quantities. 

The reason for making 25 cents more per hen in the utility stock over lasc 
year is accounted for in the fall hatch, which enabled us to market broilers in 
the winter at 30 and 35 cents per pound, live weight. Other people find it out 
and want it, the best is always in demand, in fact they must have it for the im- 
provement of their stock. 



SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 21 

My fancy fowls sent to shows for exhibition are the selection from my 
entire hatch during the year, showing" that the utility and fancy co-operate to 
our advantage. 

The Pacific Coast is a much larger consumer than producer of poultry. 
Millions of dollars are sent East every year for poultry and eggs and the prices 
are high. This condition will not be changed in our generation and the oppor- 
tunity for success with poultry will continue open to those who have the 
interest, money, perseverance and tact to master the business. 

(Signed) FRANK E. BALDWIN, 
38 Washington Avenue, San Jose, Cal." 

Mr. W. J. Schmidt and F. M. Gunther, who jointly own nine acres devoted 
to poultry on the Saratoga and Mountain View roads near Sunnyvale, are an 
example of what two energetic persons can accomplish in the poultry industry 
in Santa Clara county within a year and a half. Both men worked at the 
Joshua Hendy Iron Works at Sunnyvale and made their $4.25 per day. They 
conceived the idea of establishing a poultry ranch as a permanent business 
and become independent. 

After a few months' experience they began to realize that there was a 
future in the business and gave up their positions to devote all of their time to 
the poultry farm. Both are enthusiastic and state that their land, home and 
equipment including their stock, has all been made by the chickens themselves 
within a year and a half and chey do not improve until they have made the 
profit sufficient to do so. In July their receipts were $165 from 250 
hens. They have a well stocked plant and are now in fair way to increase 
their plant to one thousand hens within the next year. White Leghorns are 
their principal stock and they are experimenting with Hoodans and have a few 
Columbian Wyandottes. Mr. Schmidt has a family, all of whom live nicely 
and are enjoying -the open air life attendant upon the poultry industry. 

WHAT IS DONE WITH THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLES PRO- 
DUCED IN THE VALLEY? 

From the annual report of the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara Coun- 
ty, California, 1909-10: 

DRIED— Amount, Lbs. Value. 

Almonds 320,000 $ 48,000 

Apples 8,000,000 80,000 

Apricots 316,800 12,840 

Beans 820,800 8,210 

Onions 200,000 16,000 

Pears 7,000,000 350,000 

Prunes 38,000,000 1,995,000 

Walnuts 365,000 54,000 

CANNED— Amount, Cases. Value. 

Apples 7,500 $ 15,000 

Apricots 67,500 168,750 

Grapes 12,000 36,000 

Pears 60,000 180,000 

Peaches 50,000 150,000 

Peas 100,000 30,000 

Tomatoes 200,000 200,000 



12 SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 

By reference to the accompanying extract one can see that there must be 
many canneries. These are located in' Los Gatos, Campbell, San Jose, Santa 
L Iara and Sunnyvale, and the output amounts to considerably more than 
$1,500,000. 

The drying of fruits and vegetables is done in the orchards and fields 
by the growers, the products being taken to the packing houses for cleansing, 
sorting and putting into marketable shape. A return of over two and one- 
half millions of dollars is obtained from this one source. 

WHAT IS THE EXTENT OF THE MARKET GARDENS IN THE 
VALLEY? 

The accompanying extract from the Annual Report of the Board of 
Supervisors of the Santa Clara Valley for 1909-10 shows the amount produced 
and its value, in the Santa Clara county. As this industry is distributed through 
the entire valley, and the gardens cluster about the larger towns, this report 
gives only a small fraction of the volume of the business done in the entire 
valley. It is greatest in the immediate vicinity of San Francisco, where the 
gardens are most interesting. There, along the hillsides, they are planted in 
terraces, and the numerous windmills remind one strongly of Holland. This 
business is almost entirely in the hands of foreigners, who have learned it in 
their native land. 

VEGETABLES— Amount.Lbs. Value. 

Asparagus. 7,500,000 $187,500 

Beans 30,000 

Beets 2,600 

Cabbage 4,000 

Celery 5,290 

Cauliflower 4,400 

Corn 37,500 

Onions 132,000 3,960 

Peas 2,500,000 50,000 

Irish Potatoes 1,150,000 23,000 

Tomatoes 30,000,000 150,000 

WHY ARE GARDEN SEEDS RAISED IN THIS VALLEY? 

Because of the climate. It is quite well known to those in the seed busi- 
ness that the production of vegetables and flower seeds is confined to very 
small sections in all parts of the world and always in areas of the very finest 
soils and climate. There are only a few places in Germany, France, Italy, 
Holland and England where the best seeds are grown, and small sections of 
New England, Michigan, New York, Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska, where 
seeds are grown in this country. And even these districts produce but a lim- 
ited line of specialties. 

California has become the world's supply center for lettuce, onion and 
sweet pea seed, besides furnishing also large quantities of radishes, celery, 
parsley, parsnip, salsify and carrot, collards, celery, asparagus, mustard, kale 
leek, spinach, tomatoes, oyster plant, rabi, and some flower seeds, such as 
nasturtiums, poppies, mignonette and asters. 

The advantages of this valley were discovered some 35 years ago, and 



24 SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 

about ten acres wore devoted to the raising of onion seed. The success was 
so groat that the industry has steadily advanced until now over 12,000 acres 
are producing garden and flower seeds, and the acreage is still increasing. The 
rich soil insures a thrifty plant, and the perfect weather during ripening and 
harvesting, insures a crop in perfect condition. There is no rain during these 
months, consequently no expense of drying sheds; the seeds are cured and 
sacked in the open field. These conditions make for the higher germination 
of the seeds and a much less cost of production. The labor is performed by 
Japanese and Chinese, as their early training in their own country fits them 
peculiarly for this work. It would be impossible to get other nationalities to 
do the hoeing and weeding by hand that is necessary. 

Ninety-five per cent of the lettuce seed in the world is produced here 
on over 3,000 acres. Over a hundred distinct varieties of sweet pea seeds are 
grown on over 2,000 acres. About the year 1886, C. C. Morse & Co., who 
were then the acknowledged leaders in the industry, began growing sweet 
pea seed, and have steadily kept pace with the increasing popularity of the 
flower, until their annual acreage devoted to this flower is no less than 400 to 
500 acres. The sweet pea is grown to perfection in the Santa Clara Valley, 
and the entire civilized world now gets its seed supply from California. The 
different varieties are planted in strips, some hundreds of feet in width, and 
in blossom look like giant ribbons stretched across the fields, while their frag- 
rance is as delicious as the view is beautiful. No less than four hundred tons 
a year are shipped out of this state, and the California growers are recog- 
nized as up-to-date with all the new introductions, and do a great deal of de- 
velopment work to secure new varieties themselves. The careful work neces- 
sary to bring each variety to its highest state of production is done by selected 
men, especially fitted for hybridizing and crossing one plant with another 

C. C. Morse & Co. issue a little book on sweet peas which they will be 
pleased to sell to any one writing for same at 25 cents a copy. They also issue 
a beautiful catalogue, which is mailed free to anyone mentioning the souvenir 
when writing. 

IS THE RAISING OF LIVE STOCK AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY? 

Live Stock Industry. 

Number. „ Value. 

Cattle— Beef 1,500 $ 45,000 

Stock 12,400 223,200 

Dairy Cows— Graded 6,840 239.400 

Calves 5,020 60,240 

Swine 5,250 21,000 

Horses— Thoroughbred 95 20,900 

Standard bred 260 39,000 

Common 13,070 530,500 

Colts 1,875 37,500 

Jacks and Jennies 44 440 

Mules 250 12,500 

Sheep : . 950 2,850 

Lambs 450 1,350 

Angora Goats 155 775 

Common Goats 340 340 



SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 25 

The above statistics give the extent of this industry in Santa Clara county 
and much is done in the region adjacent to San Francisco. Much interest at 
present is manifested in alfalfa farming for the purpose of cattle and hog 
raising, as well as for selling the hay. The prevailing prices make the in- 
dustry a most profitable one and the artesian belt makes alfalfa raising very 
easy. 

IS DAIRYING PRACTICABLE? 

Dairy Industry. 

No. Production. Value. 

Creameries 13 $285,000 

Butter (pounds) 270,800 85,000 

Cheese (pounds) 450,000 86,500 

$465,500 

Not only practicable, but, because of the good markets at hand, it is a 
most profitable industry. Improved plants and sanitary conditions are re- 
placing the old unsanitary dairies. As the statistics show, in Santa Clara 
county alone, the products are about half a million, and the northern end of 
the valley toward San Francisco contains many more dairies than the Santa 
Clara county, as the conditions are equally good for raising stock, and it is 
nearer to San Francisco, which is the largest market. 

IS THE VALLEY A GOOD PLACE TO RAISE GRAIN AND HAY? 

Cereal Products and Hay. 
Acres. 

Wheat 400 

Barley. . . : 1,500 

Oats 400 



Total Cereals 2,300 

Alfalfa Hay 500 

Grain Hay 10,000 



Tons. 

350 

1,100 

225 


Value. 

$ 


1,675 

2,000 
20,000 


$ 56,375 

24,000 
300,000 



Total Hay 10,500 22,000 $324,000 

The statistics accompanying show that hay produces an income of over 
$300,000, and that the value of the grain product is more than $50,000. 

This industry is interesting to the Easterner. In the first place, hay isn't 
hay, as the Easterner knows it, but it is oats or wheat or barley or alfalfa. 
Timothy and other varieties of hay are not known here at all. The hay crop 
is cut a little earlier than if the grain were to be threshed. It is handled ex- 
actly as Timothy is handled in the East. 

Plowing is done for the hay crop as soon as the first rain makes it pos- 
sible to work the ground. This varies, as sometimes rain falls in sufficient 
quantities in October, while in other years the farmer must wait until De- 
cember. The crop is harvested usually in May or June. Alfalfa is cut several 
times a year, depending on the amount of irrigation. With plenty of water 
five crops per year can be gathered. This crop is raised in the part of the 



26 SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 

valley called the artesian belt, where artesian wells furnish an abundance of 
water with no expense of pumping. At the present time there is a great deal 
of inquiry for alfalfa ranches. 

IS THERE MUCH TIMBER IN THE VALLEY? 

The Santa Cruz mountains are heavily wooded, chiefly with redwood and 
oak. The Mt. Hamilton range has a little timber. The statistics quoted below 
show the area and value in the Santa Clara county, but one can see by the 
map how much greater is the wooded area covering" the Santa Cruz range 
almost to San Francisco. Much of this has been cut over, but there are still 
most beautiful redwood forests. The eucalyptus is being planted in many parts 
of the valley, as the soil and climatic conditions here are all considered to 
be unusually favorable. This is grown for fuel, and is also being used to a cer- 
tain extent in the manufacture of furniture, interior finishings, parts of tools 
and farming implements. 

Three peculiarities of this tree make it most valuable as timber. First, 
its rapid growth. Trees of ten years' growth furnish valuable lumber for some 
articles. Second, every five years the trees can be cut to within twenty feet 
of the ground, and the secondary growth is more rapid and the quality of the 
wood finer than in the first growth. Third, the wood is so hard as to furnish 
a perfectly satisfactory substitute for the hard woods used in making farming 
implements, wagons and other articles requiring a high grade hardwood. 
Much of the valley land is too expensive for eucalyptus growing, but there are 
large areas of inexpensive land that, planted to eucalyptus, will furnish after 
ten years a perpetual income to the owner, with a comparatively slight initial 
expense, and, after the first two years, no care. 

IS THERE ANY MINING IN THE VALLEY? 

The quick silver mines of Almaden are noted the world over, and yielded 
last year over $100,000. They are named after the older ones at Almaden, 
Spain. 

At Los Gatos, a little town set in the midst of the wonderful beauty of the 
foothills, considerable is being done in boring for petroleum. No record has 
been made, as the industry is new to the valley. 

WHAT IS THE PLANTING SEASON? 

This is very mysterious and confusing to the Easterner who is ac- 
customed to the clearly defined four seasons. The following garden calendar 
is condensed from one published by Professor Wickson, head of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture at the State University. 

There is really no closed season in the growing of the vegetables or 
flowers. It is always time to plant something, for there is no degree of cold 
that endangers the hardier vegetables. In December and January, during the 
season of heaviest rainfall, there is apt to be a cold, wet surface, which does not 
give hospitable welcome to seeds and seedlings. Commonly the planting is 
reserved for February. This valley is naturally fitted for an almost endless 



SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 27 

succession of sowings and gatherings, but there are best times for doing 
specific things. 

California has really two springs — one in October and November, when 
the change is from drouth to moisture, and one in February and March, when 
the change is from cold to warmth. 

February. 

This is the great planting month, which is quite a distinction where seeds 
are planted and plants are set in every other month of the year. All seeds 
are put in, excepting those of the very tender plants, like beans, corn, to- 
matoes, etc. The deciduous fruit trees begin to blossom. Pruning, not done 
in the fall, is done now. Rose cuttings are set out. Border plants are multi- 
plied, sugar beets are sown as a field crop for the factory. Fruit and other 
trees are set out. 

March. 
The lion and the lamb combination of weather conditions is not known 
in a California March. On the contrary, it is a month of active growth. 
What was left undone in-February is done in this month. Melons, corn, 
squash, beans, etc., are planted. Pdower seeds are also planted. Weeds 
grov. apace. 

April. 
This is the month of riotous growth. It is the time when the newcomer 
asserts that he can see things grow. In this month roses are the most 
gorgeous of all the year. It is the June of the East. All kinds of seeds grow 
marvelously. Chrysanthemums, etc., are planted for fall bloom. 

May. 

Garden work is different in this month. The rains are practically over 
and moisture must be conserved. Seeds planted this month are planted 
deeper in order to keep the surface finely pulverized. This layer of finely 
pulverized dry surface protects the moist layer from the thirsty air. This is 
the time to learn the value of the mulch, which should be placed about all 
newly transplanted seedlings. 

June. 

This is the time to learn how to water. The daily sprinkle that wets 
the top of the soil and produces a fine bake must give way to irrigation. 
That is, watering at longer intervals and in a way to soak thoroughly the 
ground. Thus, much less water is needed, and better results are obtained at 
less outlay of labor. 

July. 

It must be remembered that in the market gardens, seeds are planted in 
every month in order to have a constant succession of fresh vegetables for 
the market. The chief activities of this month, however, are by way of 
maintaining growth. During this month the watering of roses can be dis- 
continued. A month's rest will insure a bountiful blossoming during Oc- 
tober, November and December. The bushes can be pruned with good effect. 



28 SANTA CLARA VALLEY! 

August. 

Corn and potatoes can be planted in this month with chance of crops 
before the wet season. It is the month to prepare for the second springtime, 
which the beginning of the rainy season ushers in. Seed beds can be made. 
Begin again the watering of roses and berries for fall blossoming and fruit. 
Biennials and perennials which bloom the second year in wintry climates, 
count a year in California as good as two years elsewhere, provided they are 
started so they can grow in the latter half of one year and blossom in the 
first half of the next. More thorough watering of chrysanthemums is neces- 
sary to get ready for their fall flowering. 

September. 

This is the month when we can expect the first rain for our second 
spring, although it may be delayed and we must still depend on irrigation. 
Roses are blossoming and all fall flowers; sweet peas, pansies, late and 
hardy vegetables are planted now. Winter bulbs like those of the Narcissus 
family, hyacinths, tulips, etc., are planted in this month. 

October. 

This is a continuance of the fall planting season of cabbage, onions, 
spinach, lettuce and turnips for midwinter and spring use. Peas will yield 
for the Christmas table. It is the time for fertilizing, especially in order that 
the rains may carry the food to the roots of the plants. Deciduous trees and 
shrubs are pruned. Bulbs are also planted. 

November. 

Vegetables are still sown and deciduous trees and shrubs are planted. 
Chrysanthemums are in their glory. 

December. 

Hardy vegetables can be planted. Violets begin to bloom. Rose cut- 
tings can be taken. It is a good time for pruning and planting deciduous 
trees and shrubs. There are still some roses and chrysanthemums in bloom 
and geraniums are gorgeous. 

January. 

This is similar to December in character. Pruning, transplanting, fer- 
tilizing and seeding of hardy plants is continued. 

TO WHAT EXTENT IS MANUFACTURING CARRIED ON IN THE 
VALLEY? 

By reference to the accompanying extract from the Annual Report of 
the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County, it will be seen that, while 
not predominant, it still has made a good beginning, and the total output in the 
Santa Clara county is a respectable sum. The future is very bright, as 
the crude oil furnishes a cheap fuel, the lack of which, heretofore, has pre- 
vented the development of this industry. 

Stretching out along the bay shore, south from San Francisco, the smoke 
stacks are already appearing, and little imagination is necessary to foresee 
an immense development in the valley, where both water and rail transpor- 
tation are available, and where materials are easily obtained. 



SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 29 

MANUFACTORIES. 

No. No. of Employees. Value of Product. 

Bookbinderies 2 56 $91,400 

Wood Boxes 3 25 70,000 

Brick 5 150 100,000 

Brooms 1 2 2,000 

Carriages and Wagons . . 11 103 96,000 

Cigars 13 50 60,000 

Coffee, Spices, etc 2 25 150,000 

Confectionery 28 70 140,000 

Electrical Supplies 7 22 75,000 

Foundries & Iron Works. 12 96 252,000 

Furniture 5 15 20,000 

Tewelry 2 5 7,000 

Leather Goods 15 40 100,000 

Olive Oil 61,000 

Pickled Olives 20,000 

Planing Mills 14 625 250,000 

Potteries 2 20 30,000 

Soap 1 3 34,000 

Artificial stone " 6 35 160,000 

Granite ; marble 5 61 200,000 

IS THERE ROOM FOR NEWCOMERS IN THE VALLEY? 

Room for thousands. San Jose is the largest town, situated about 50 
miles southeast from San Francisco. This town, with its close suburbs, in- 
cludes about 50,000; Palo Alto, where Stanford University is situated, con- 
tains about 7,500; San Mateo, about 6,000; Mountain View, 2,500; Mayfield, 
1,500; Sunnyvale, 1,500; Redwood, 2,000; Burlingame, 4,000; Los Gatos, 
3,000; Morgan Hill, 500; Gilroy, 2,000. All the towns of this valley are strung 
like beads on the railroad that traverses it lengthwise, excepting two or three 
foothill towns that are chiefly centers for the surrounding ranches. There is 
more density in the suburban population than in that of towns, as 
there are a great many small ranches of from 5 to 10 acres between Palo 
Alto and San Jose. Besides these, there are many containing from 50 to 200 
acres. The accompanying map gives an idea of the distribution of the popu- 
lation. In the southern end of the valley are still immense grain and grazing 
ranches of thousands of acres. These are yet to be sub-divided, and will 
raise as fine fruit as any other part of the valley. In the district labeled 
small farms, there are many scattered ones containing hundreds of acres that 
.can be divided for more intensive farming. Ten acres well financed and in- 
telligently managed will yield a comfortable income. Indeed, many families 
are living on five acres. But these must be in exceedingly thrifty hands to 
supply an entire family. As a poultry ranch, 5 acres is sufficient. 

San Francisco, situated at the point of the peninsula, has no way to 
grow but down this valley. Consequently, all along the slopes of the 
beautiful hills and on the knolls of the foothills are built beautiful homes 
with grounds covering from 5 to 500 acres. Homes are nestled among the 
live oaks on the floor of this valley along the line of the railroad. Par- 
ticularlv is this true between Redwood and Palo Alto. The oaks on either 



30 



SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 



side of the railroad arc particularly beautiful and numerous, and many are 
the comfortable mansions within easy reach of the stations which are, in 
some cases, as Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Fair Oaks and Mayfield, only a mile 
apart. 

Recently conditions have changed in several points so as to presage and 
invite many more people to the valley. The railroad has, by building five 




tunnels through the hills south of San Francisco, shortened the time so that 
business men of San Francisco may live as far down the valley as Palo Alto 
and reach their offices in as short a time as it wonld take them to go to the 
best residence section of the city itself. Indeed, there are some who go from 
S&n Jose and Los Gatos, though these towns are too far away for those who 
must be at their offices at an early hour. 



SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 31 

WHAT DO THESE HOME SITES COST? 

Acreage along the foothills from San Mateo to Palo Alto ranges in price 
from $300 to $1,200 per acre for home sites. These locations have magnifi- 
cent views of the valley and bay. Farther up the mountainsides prices are 
lower, as the locations are less accessible. Along the railroad, from town to 
town, as far as Mayfield, the land is divided into lots containing an acre, a 
half acre and less. These can be bought for from $300 to $600, and the price 
usually includes water, sewers and sidewalks, though conditions vary in 
different tracts. 

WHAT IS THE COST OF ORCHARD LAND? 

Beyond Stanford University, to the south along the foothills, acreage 
with bearing orchards on knolls with fine views, can be had for from $500 to 
$800 per acre. Bearing orchards, excepting cherries, on level ground, bring 
from $250 to $450 per acre. A good full-bearing cherry orchard brings from 
$700 to $800 per acre. When one realizes that two acres of cherries were 
sold on the trees for $1,140, and that without picking, packing or marketing, 
it is plain that the investment at these prices yields a very good return. Bare 
land suitable for alfalfa raising or orchards, can be bought in ranches of from 
50 to 200 or 300 acres at from $100 to $200 per acre. Small ranches of from 
ten to twenty acres can be bought at from $200 to $300 per acre. 

WHAT LABOR IS EMPLOYED IN RANCHING? 

All kinds. The seed farms and market gardens are worked chiefly by 
Japanese or Chinese, because white labor in such quantity is not avail?ble. 
When the fruit is ripe, everyone works in the orchards — women and children 
from all the country and towns around. Many Mexicans, Portuguese and 
Italians serve as laborers in the valley. 

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE LABORING MAN? 

It is great ! The carpenter receives from $4.00 to $5.00 per day, and the 
day contains 8 hours ; the bricklayer and plasterer, from $6.00 to $7.00. Gar- 
deners receive $2.50, and the ordinary day laborer about the same. And it 
must be remembered that work does not stop when the winter months come. 
Instead of being able to work but five or six months of the year and being 
obliged to save enough then to carry him through the long winter, when he 
must pay heavy bills for fuel and warm clothing, the carpenter and plasterer 
work all the year through. Building is as active in the winter as in the 
summer. 

The life of the laboring man here is different, too. He may sleep out 
of doors all the time, and he does as much of his work out of doors as 
possible. I know of women who have almost an open air kitchen. A veranda 
is screened from the flies, and there are set tubs for laundry work, and many 
have the stove there, too, having windows to put up when it rains. 

This kind of life makes for better health, long life and, what is quite im- 
portant, good nature. The system is not being slowly poisoned by constantly 



32 SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 

breathing the foul air of over-heated and air-tight rooms. It is a paradise 
for the working man, his wife and children. 

It is a new country — a country with plenty of room for the newcomers, 
who are arriving in larger numbers every year, and all these must have homes. 
They must have people to help them on their ranches. So there is more and 
more need of workmen of all kinds. The young man can easily get work on 
a ranch for a year or so, learn the business as it is carried on in this country, 
save his money and take advantage of an opportunity to get a piece of land 
by making a small cash payment. He can, with thrift and judgment, pay 
for his land from what it yields him. 

CAN WOMEN MAKE A SUCCESS OF RANCHING IN THIS VALLEY? 

There is no part of the world where conditions are more favorable for 
their success. There is no severe winter, consequently expensive buildings 
are unnecessary and less labor is required. The small ranches en- 
sure close neighbors. The people are for the most part from 
the East and are people of education and refined tastes who 
have heard and answered the call to a simple, wholesome life. The 
accessibility of San Francisco makes it easy to enjoy the advantages of a 
large city. The count}- roads are excellent. Electricity for power and light- 
ing is everywhere, the telephone is in almost every home, and the grocer, 
butcher and baker make their regular rounds from the different towns and 
cover almost every part of the valley. Of the varieties of ranches carried on 
by women, poultry raising brings quick returns, and is very satisfactory. 
Many women in the valley are successful in this line. Berries and small 
fruits and alfalfa can be reckoned on for immediate and satisfactory terms. 
If one has capital sufficient to purchase a bearing orchard, the same would 
be true. 

These very attractive conditions have been discovered by many women, 
but there is plenty of room for more. 

HOW IS THE VALLEY CONNECTED WITH THE OUTSIDE 
WORLD? 

The Southern Pacific railroad extends from San Francisco, through the 
valley on its way down the coast route to the south. The development oi 
the electric railroad has just begun. It extends from San Francisco to San 
Mateo. It also reaches out from San Jose to Alum Rock, Los Gatos and 
Saratoga. It connects San Jose and Palo Alto by a beautiful route along 
the foothills, giving exquisite views of the valley, mountains and bay. 

The Peninsular Electric Railway covers the entire western section of 
the beautiful Santa Clara Valley and the foothill region, giving rapid and 
convenient communication between San Jose, Meridian, Cupertino, Monta 
Vista, Los Altos, Mayfield, Palo Alto, Stanford University, Saratoga, Con- 
gress Springs, Los Gatos, Nippon Mura, Campbell. 

The Dumbarton bridge, long in building, now opens another door to 
this valley. 

Twenty-five miles south of the foot of Market street, San Francisco, 



Warm Springs Sta. 



Milpitas 




MAP 

SHOWING LINES OF 

Peninsular Railway 

COMPANY 



PENINSULAR RAILWAY COS. LINES 

DOUBLE TRACKS, OPERATED BY THE 
PENINSULAR RAILWAY AND 
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD 



34 SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 

Dumbarton Point juts Erom the eastern shore of San Francisco bay and from 
the opposite shore in an effort to meet it extends Ravenswood Point, and 
between the two is deep water. To the north and south the bay drops away 
to a width of several miles, but here at this point it is but a mile and a 
quarter from shore to shore. The first of the great railroad builders of the 
west. C. P. Huntington, for years dreamed of putting a railroad across the 
bay here, but it remained for the greatest of the progressive reconstruction- 
ists, E. H. Harriman, to bring the dream to fulfillment. 

In the year 1906 the actual construction of the Dumbarton bridge was 
begun, and for over four years the most eminent of railroad engineers have 
battled with the surging tide and deep water of San Francisco bay, over- 
coming seemingly insurmountable obstacles and never faltering in the face of 
the most disheartening of setbacks. Mr. Harriman placed this, his pet work, in 
the hands of his chief engineer, Mr. Geo. F. Hood, but neither Mr. Hood 
nor his superior lived to see his efforts crowned with success, and the work 
was finished by new men, but to them belongs all the credit for a great 
work well done. 

Today the great bridge stretches serenely from shore to shore firmly 
above the turbulent waters which its builders fought so hard to conquer. 
The bridge consists of a central structure of great spans, approached on either 
side by a long stretch of heavy trestle work. The steel work, with a total 
length of fifteen hundred feet, or over one-quarter of a mile, is comprised of 
six two hundred-foot spans, three on each side of the great central draw- 
span of three hundred feet. This draw span when swung open provides two 
channels each wide enough for the passage of the largest ships. This fea- 
ture of the bridge was necessary, as navigable waters cannot be closed to 
traffic, and by very reason of the bridge itself, bringing the railroad, great 
manufacturing and shipping industries will speedily grow up on the adjacent 
shores alongside the deep water and fine harbor. The heavy steel work, 
weighing thousands of tons, and spanning water from sixty to ninety feet 
in depth, rests on gigantic piers of steel and concrete driven to a depth of 
one hundred feet into the bottom of the bay. 

The route of the Dumbarton cut-off when entirely completed and in 
full operation will run directly from Sacramento to Niles by way of Anti- 
och, across the bridge, and over the tracks of the Bay Shore Cut-Off into 
the heart of San Francisco, with a saving of about one hour in actual running 
time. It is impossible to measure or estimate the tremendous effect and 
benefit this new overland route will have on San Francisco and the peninsula. 
The United States government in granting the right to bridge navigable 
waters with a railroad, specified that any railroad, for a reasonable compen- 
sation, can have, if so desiring, the privilege of using this bridge. That 
every railroad into San Francisco will be running its main line trains over 
this route into a great Union Depot into the heart of the city itself is of 
course but a matter of a very short time. 

Second only to San Francisco in the benefits which will result from this 
new route is the Santa Clara Valley, the city of Palo Alto and the territory 
immediately adjacent to the bridge, once the old town of Ravenswood, which 



SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 




Dumbarton Bridge. 

will now by reason of its railroad and deep water facilities become an unex- 
celled manufacturing and shipping point. The city of Palo Alto will reap 
the same benefits, being only two miles from the bridge, and soon to have 
direct connection by electric car line with the bridge. Also all points in the 
Santa Clara valley by reason of the present interurban electric car connection 
with Palo Alto will have close and direct availability to all the main line and 
other traffic, which will be diverted over the new route. Thus through 
new facilities and potential influences a still greater growth and development 
must and will come to this locality. 



WHAT ARE THE EDUCATIONAL CONDITIONS OF THE VALLEY? 

This valley is unusually well supplied with educational advantages of 
every kind. The climate attracts students to its university and private schools 
from all parts of the country. 

The public school system is above the average. At San Jose is located 
one of the state normal schools, housed in a magnificent new building set in a 
beautiful park. 

The high school of San Jose has outgrown a beautiful building constructed 
only three years ago, and plans are being made to establish a Polytechnic High 
school. High schools are also located at San Mateo, Redwood City, Palo 
Alto, Mountain View and Santa Clara. The salaries are higher than in the 
East, and in almost all places they are paid during the twelve months. 



36 SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 

The attractiveness of the valley makes possible many other private schools. 
Heading the list is, of course, Stanford University, situated on its vast estate 
of 9,000 acres, adjoining Palo Alto. 

At College Park, a suburb of San Jose, is located a Methodist college, the 
University ol the Pacific, and at Santa Clara, a Catholic college. Between 
Palo Alto and Menlo Park is a Catholic Theological Seminary, and at San 
Mateo, an Episcopal Theological Seminary. At Belmont, San Mateo, Palo 
Alto and near Los Gatos are schools for boys, and schools for girls are located 
at San Jose, Menlo and Palo Alto. 

San Jose is quite a musical center, several conservatories being located 
there. Business education is not neglected. In San Jose are two schools for 
business training and several high schools give commercial courses. The 
Palo Alto High school is peculiarly fortunate in having an unusually fine 
course. 

ARE THERE ANY PLEASURE OR HEALTH RESORTS IN THE 
VALLEY? 

At Gilroy, at the south end of the valley, are the famous Gilroy Hot 
Springs, with a satisfactory sanatorium. The waters of Congress Springs. 
in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains near Saratoga, and of Alum 
Rock Springs, in the foothills of the Mt. Hamilton range to the east of San 
Jose, are noted for their medical qualities. 

Scattered through the Santa Cruz mountains and foothills there are 
many charming hostelries, located in redwood groves and along the beautiful 
streams, where the people of the valley and those from far away enjoy restful 
vacations. 

Near Los Gatos is Camp Curry, where the camper has his desire as to 
camp life, and without the care and responsibility of details. 

Nippon Mura is a small resort, Japanese in architecture and grounds. 

LICK OBSERVATORY. 

The Lick Observatory stands on a small level on the summit of Mt. Ham- 
ilton, near San Jose. Here the solid rock of the mountain top has been blasted 
away to make room for the buildings. No attempt has been made for a fine 
architectural exterior. The end has been that of making a suitable home for 
the astronomical instruments within. At one end of the building is the larger 
dome for the great telescope. At the other end is a small dome for the twelve- 
inch refractor, which is fully as much used as the larger instrument. Between 
these domes are a series of rooms for work, and across the front, the large 
porch, whence we view the "kingdoms of the earth." 

When built, the large telescope, according to Mr. Lick's wish, was the larg- 
est in the world. Its object glass is 36 inches in diameter, and the tube which 
carries it is sixty feet long. Fully as marvelous is the strong yet delicate 
machinery which moves this great mass. It must have the strength to move 
tons, yet the accuracy of the finest clock work, to enable it to find the wished- 
for spot in the heavens and keep it true to its position as the earth rotates. 

Of course there are many other valuable instruments on the mountain. 



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Lick Observatory. 



the meridian circle, transit instrument, heliograph, etc. But more important 
for the success of the institution must he considered the able staff of devoted 
men, without whom the equipment would be of little value. The men on 
Mt. Hamilton are known to the scientific world as men to whom knowledge is 
more than personal fame, who seek not chiefly the brilliant discovery or 
startling theory which win passing applause, but who move carefully over 
the long and devious pathway among the stars with a ceaseless round of 
daily observations and calculations on calculations, which alone add real value 
to our knowledge cf astronomy, that most interesting but most unanswer- 
able quest for the secrets of the universe. 



San Jose 




)AN JOSE, since the date when the pueblo was founded in 
1777 by Don Jose Moraga and his little force of nine soldiers, 
has been one of the most interesting towns in California. 
Many events of historic interest have had their setting there 
and many of the men who have brought honor to the state 
have held themselves fortunate to have been . residents of 
this beautiful and prosperous city. 

Ideally located in the central portion of the Santa Clara valley, forty 
miles distant from San Francisco in a direct line and less than fifty miles by 
rail, San Jose has become the commercial and industrial center for the most 
marvelously productive and prosperous region of California. The city has a 
metropolitan population of 50,000 to 60,000, and is the trading point for the 
numerous towns and the innumerable ranches and orchards of the wide- 
spreading valley with approximate!)' 100,000 people. 

It is the distributing point for the varied products of the surrounding 
country, products which amount in volume to many thousands of carloads. 
There are excellent railroad facilities to handle the great output of the valley, 
the city being directly connected with the southern and central lines of the 
Southern Pacific Company to the east, and also having two railway lines 
along the east side of the bay to Oakland, one on the west side of the bay to 
San Francisco, and lines south to Santa Cruz, Monterey and Pacific Grove. 
There are fifty trains daily between San Francisco and San Jose. 

A network of intertown electric railways radiates from San Jose. The 
Peninsular Railway operates a triangular track reaching San Jose, Saratoga, 
Congress Springs, Los Gatos, Campbell and many other intermediate points. 
The same company also maintains a fast electric service between San Jose, 
Cupertino, Monte Vista, Los Altos, Mayfield, Palo Alto and the Stanford 
University, and it is proposed to extend the same to San Francisco. 

The "San Jose Railroads" system operates a single mileage of eighty 
miles and a street mileage of sixty-six. This system extends throughout the 
city of San Jose and suburbs, connecting with Santa Clara on the west and 
extending six miles east of San Jose to Alum Rock Park, a city reservation. 
Another system is proposed to Alviso, to connect with steamers to San 
Francisco, also to Mount Hamilton, Evergreen and the eastern foothills. 

San Jose Parks. 

The cities of the Santa Clara valley are natural parks in themselves, 
as the variety and luxuriance of ornamental trees and shrubbery and the pro- 
fusion of flowers in bloom throughout the year give a most charming effect. 
San Jose is particularly beautiful in this regard. The broad avenues are lined 
with a great wealth of trees, chiefly semi-tropic, and a variety of stately palms. 
A few among the many shade trees are the feathery pepper, the graceful 



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grevillea, the orange and lemon with their wax-like foliage and golden fruit, 
the beautiful magnolia with its great white blossoms, the imposing euca- 
lyptus, conifers of many varieties, the prim umbrella, the English hawthorne 
and the acacia, most beautiful of flowering trees. The greenest of lawns 
give a charm to the homes that are usually half hidden by climbing roses, 
jasmine, passion flower, Virginia creeper, or some other equally graceful 
plant that gives an effect of coziness which cannot be described. 

Yet the nature-loving residents of San Jose are not content with all this 
beauty of home and highway. In the very center of the city has been created 
St. James Park, a spot of surpassing loveliness, with a central fountain ap- 
proached by winding walks among native oaks, pine, cypresses and palms. 
It is said that this park has a greater variety of trees than any other in the 
United States. The City Hall park is quite as attractive in its way, and there 
are pretty plazas in different parts of the city. 

It is the good fortune of few cities to possess a natural park of large 
area, such as Alum Rock Park, which is the pride and playground of San 
Jose. This park is a tract of one thousand acres located in a mountain canyon 
six miles from the city, with which it is connected by electric railway. The 
canyon has precipitous sides and at its lower end broadens to give sufficient 
room for buildings, playgrounds and floral nooks. Penetencia creek, an 
ever-living stream, flows over falls and down cascades to add vo the charm. 
Native trees, wild flowers and ferns make the place a delight to all. There 
are sixteen mineral springs in the canyon, each one supplying a different 
medicinal water. There are sulphur and soda baths, a deer paddock, bear 
den, aviary, restaurant, and a well-equipped children's playground. 

Public Buildings and Schools. 

The public buildings include one of the finest postoffice structures whicn 
the Federal Government has erected on the Pacific Coast. The county has a 
splendid series of buildings, a Court House, a Hall of Records and a Hall of 
Justice. Here also is the largest and finest State Normal School in the West. 
with grounds covering two blocks near the center of the city. There is a mag- 
nificent Public Library building, having a large and well selected collection of 
books. The City Hall is one of the noteworthy buildings. 

The public school buildings represent an investment of three-quarters of a 
million dollars. They are models of convenience and represent the latest de- 
signs in ventilation and sanitation, while ample grounds provide room for 
playgrounds and flower gardens. California is noted for the excellence of its 
public school system, and the schools of San Jose rank among the best in the 
state. 

The High School building, erected at a cost of $175,000, is constructed of 
reinforced concrete. This school has an enrollment of over 700 pupils and the 
four years' course equips the graduate either to enter a university or to engage 
in practical business affairs. The faculty requirements assure that only experi- 
enced and successful educators are employed. 

There are four fine Grammar School buildings, the Grant school, the 
Lowell school, the Longfellow school and the Horace Mann school. These 



SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 41 

buildings are all new and have the latest equipment and attractive grounds. 
Primary schools and suburban schools combine with those mentioned to form 
a school system of thorough excellence. There are about 4,000 pupils enrolled 
in the grammar school grades. Most of the school buildings are in the Mission 
style of architecture, which is picturesque and well adapted to this climate. 

Notre Dame college is the oldest school for girls in California. It was 
founded in 1844 by the Sisters of Notre Dame, and has long held an enviable 
position in the educational world of the West: The college has large grounds 
on Santa Clara street, near the center of the city, and is a place of great beauty. 
The curriculum is preparatory for university work, and the arts, music, do- 
mestic science and commercial courses prepare the students for business affairs 
or equip them to grace the social life. 

The King Conservatory of Music is an institution that has long taken 
the lead in its special work. It has a faculty of twelve educators of note and is 
considered second to no other conservatory on the coast. 

The Washburn school is a preparatory school that during the twelve years 
since it was opened has become well known for the excellence of its instruction. 
There are several excellent business colleges. 

In addition to these facilities afforded directly at home, San Jose has 
easy access to the University of the Pacific, just outside the city limits; to 
Santa Clara college, but three miles distant ; and to Stanford university, 
eighteen miles distant. These institutions are all reached by electric railways. 

Financial Institutions. 

The finances of San Jose are conducted through seven prosperous banks. 
This fact is a verification of the great volume of business which centers in the 
city. The First National Bank has lately erected a nine-story structure of 
reinforced concrete, which is as handsome a structure as exists west of Chi- 
cago, and is thoroughly modern in every respect. Of the other banks, one 
occupies a building of seven stories and another one of five stories, while each 
of the four others has well-appointed quarters. The clearances average 
$2,500,000 a month. Through these institutions flow the proceeds from the 
ranches, orchards and factories of the wealthiest valley in the state. In their 
care is placed much wealth that is brought to the city by retired capitalists 
who continue to come here in large numbers to close their days in the land 
where nature is always in kindly mood. 

Hotels of San Jose. 

The hotel accommodations of San Jose are not surpassed by any city of 
its size in the United States. The handsome Hotel Vendome has a world- 
wide fame and is located in the center of a beautiful park. The grounds imme- 
diately surrounding the building include a labyrinth of shrubs and foliage, 
green lawns and bewildering vistas of beauty. In connection with the hotel 
and located on the grounds are a fine bathing pavilion, bowling alleys and 
tennis courts. 

The Hotel St. James is a most imposing structure. It is situated in the 



42 SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 

center of the city opposite St. James Park, which makes it peculiarly attract- 
ive from a commercial standpoint. Modern in every appointment, it lacks 
none ol" the attractiveness oi a first-class hotel. 

Chamber of Commerce. 

The San Jose Chamber of Commerce is a wide-awake institution, com- 
posed of the representative business and professional men of the city. V. A. 
Scheller is its president, and Jos. T. Brooks its secretary. The scope of the 
activities of this body is large and no effort is considered too great so long as 
the result may bring benefit to the city and valley. Thousands of handsomely 
printed booklets are distributed and a large volume of correspondence is ne- 
cessitated to answer the many inquiries of those who are desirous of securing" 
information in regard to California. 

Through the initiative of this Chamber, San Jose is becoming well known 
as a convention city. It is the settled policy to extend hospitality to all who 
come — to tourist parties and to individuals, and a trolley ride through the 
valley is one of the most delightful experiences the stranger enjoys in Cali- 
fornia. Those who desire to learn of San Jose and its environment will do 
well to write to the Chamber of Commerce for facts ; they would do better to 
visit San Jose and be the guest of the city, for only thus can the real charm of 
this region be realized. 

A Sunshine City. 

San Jose has long been known as the Garden City, a name that is wholly 
justified. Its homes are set amid rare flowers, beautiful shrubbery and stately 
trees. Some enthusiast has styled the city as the "rose garden of the earth," 
and this is scarcely an exaggeration, for at least one hundred and sixty-five 
varieties of roses beautify the homes ; they twine around arbors, climb over 
verandas, form hedges, delight as rose trees and charm as dwarf bushes. Some 
of the varieties are perpetual bloomers and there is no season in the year when 
rose blossoms are not plentiful. Yet all this profusion of roses forms but a 
portion of the floral wealth, for there is no plant known to temperate and semi- 
tropic climes which does not flourish here. 

There is always reason when nature specially blesses a region and the 
fact that San Jose and the Santa Clara valley are so productive of the 
choicest fruit and flowers is due to the prevalence of sunshine and the influ- 
ences that modify the temperature so that with all the sunshine there is no 
extreme heat. Much has been said of sunny California, yet without any spirit 
of criticism it is pertinent to quote from a report issued by the Federal Gov- 
ernment, giving a comparison of the amount of sunshine at various points on 
the Pacific coast. The figures follow : 

San Jose 65 per cent of sunshine 

San Diego 60 per cent of sunshine 

San Francisco 57 per cent of sunshine 

Portland 45 per cent of sunshine 

Seattle 40 per cent of sunshine 



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The impression would naturally be gained that with so much sunshine 
the climate would he unduly warm, yet this is not the fact, as may be seen 
from temperature reports given in this volume in the article on Santa Clara 
valley. The proximity of the Pacific ocean, the trend of the inner coast range 
with low passes through which come the ocean breezes and the modifying ef- 
fect of the bay of San Francisco unite to make the temperature of this region 
the most equable and pleasant of any spot in California. There is an average 
annual rainfall of about fifteen inches, which is sufficient to give the land 
plenty of moisture and to cause vegetation to thrive luxuriantly. There is not 
so great a degree of dryness in the atmosphere as is found in the southern part 
of the state, nor is the heat so great as in the interior valleys. It should be 
borne in mind as well that the winters are not colder than in the southern end 




Residence of E. A. and J. O. Hayes, Edenvale. 

of the state, and there is rarely enough frost to form a thin coating of ice on 
stagnant water, and flowers blossom every day in the year. 

San Jose has an abundant supply of excellent water for domestic uses, 
brought from the adjacent mountain ranges. The sanitary conditions are of the 
best. The city is well governed. Honesty and economy, coupled with pro- 
gressiveness are exemplified in municipal affairs. 

The Guadalupe river and the Coyote creek wend their courses through the 
city on their way from the southern mountain range to the San Francisco 
bay. These are handsome streams, bordered with sycamore, willows and other 
native trees, which add a special charm to the landscape effect. 

The Alameda is another attraction in which the city takes pride. This 
is a broad tree-lined avenue, which was originally laid out as a portion of the 



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45 



King's Highway to connect the Pueblo of San Jose with the Santa Clara Mis- 
sion, three miles distant. It is one of the finest boulevards in the state, and 
fronting upon it are many imposing homes. 

It does not need a multitude of words to convince the seeker of an ideal 
home region that San Jose fulfills the requirements to the uttermost. The 
prime necessity for such a spot is a kindly climate, and no part of the world 
excels the Santa Clara valley in this regard. Such a climate is an assurance 
of healthfulness, for it permits an opportunity for almost continuous outdoor 
life. Health brings happiness and contentment, the things that make life 
worth while. Prosperity, too, attends upon such a region, for nature is 
bountiful, and the fine climate is adapted to the maximum effort the year 
around. In this tonic air labor is not fatiguing - . In San Jose wealth is being 
more and more centered in new industrial enterprises; new ventures of many 
kinds are coming into existence. 

To the home seeker, in the east or in other lands, San Jose is commended. 
A letter of inquiry to the Chamber of Commerce will bring a prompt reply 
with full information upon any desired subject. 




Palo Alto 





The Palo Alto Tree. 



HE town of Palo Alto 
derived its name from 
the home of Senator 
Stanford, and that in 
its time was called for 
the "Palo Alto" trees. These "high 
pales" or trees were two giant Red- 
woods which stood alone in the val- 
ley and served as a landmark for the 
Padres and Indians as they journeyed 
through the Oak and Madrona forests 
from Mission Dolores, in what is now 
San Francisco, to the Santa Clara Mis- 
sion near San Jose. One of these noble 
trees fell, its foundations washed away 
by the winter floods of the San Fran- 
cisquito creek ; the other, securely bul- 
warked, stands sentinel on the western 
boundary of the town. 

The incorporated City of Palo Alto 
includes an area of one mile scpiare, and 
has a population of about 6,000. De- 
spite the depression of the past few 
years, the town has grown steadily, 
largely by the addition of substantial 
citizens from the East. This is in a 
degree indicated by the amount of 
building done each year. The official 
records of building permits give the fol- 
lowing figures : 

1906— $324,100.00. 
1907— $693,752.00. 
1908— $522,014.00. 
1909— $365,142.00. 
1910— $151,396.00. 
To the man seeking a home Palo Alto 



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offers many attractions, chief among - which is California's great asset — Cli- 
mate. Protected from fog and heavy winds by the low ranges lying on either 
side, Palo Alto still gains a tempered climate from its vicinity to the ocean. 

The occasional hot days in summer are never sultry and are not op- 
pressive, because the air is dry and invigorating. The nights are always 
cool. The average yearly temperature, about 61 degrees. 

The rainfall for the year 1909 was about 17 inches. This did not, as 
some people imagine, come in a steady downpour during the whole of the 
"rainy season." That title merely indicates that there are six months of the 
year during which it may rain. Occasional showers come during November 
and December, occasional rainy days in January, with the most disagreeable 
weather, here as elsewhere, in February. But February -here is not cold and 




Bedroom in the Tree Top. 



it brings the miracle of the Spring. March and April are about as rainy as 
in the Middle AYest, but much warmer. Rain from June to October, in- 
clusive, is practically unknown, but the cool ocean breeze and occasional high 
fogs make the "dry season" also a delight. 

The man with a family will realize that this reliable and equable climate 
means not only that he may work every day in comparative comfort, but that 
his children may play out of doors all day long almost every day in the year. 
Indeed, many of them sleep out of doors as well, the year 'round. Asa result of 
this fresh air regime the children grow in strength and stature. A series of 
scientific measurements made in Oakland show that those children average 



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larger and stronger than others of the same aye in more severe climates where 
they must be housed from the summer heat and winter cold. 

( )ld people, too, find the climate beneficial, since they need waste no 
strength fighting the powers of the air. Fathers and mothers follow West 
that they may die in the homes of their children, only to find renewed youth 
and an awakened interest in active life. 

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The city census for 1909 records 1,250 children under 17 years of age. 
Of those 1,250 children, but three died during the year. It is noticeable that 
the usual infant mortality is entirely absent. This remarkable condition is not 
due entirely to Palo Alto's health-giving climate. The city is supplied with 
the purest of water from deep-driven wells. It maintains a regular salaried 
health officer, trained for his special work in the best technical schools of the 
country. Public sanitation and health are carefully supervised, the milk and 
food supply is rigidly scrutinized and every possible source of disease is 
guarded. The fact that no intoxicating liquor may be sold within the town 
limits saves the community from the lowered vitality and impaired powers oi 
resistance that might result from its use. There are also in the city a corps 
of physicians far above the usual standard in towns of its size. All of these 
things share in producing the above remarkable health record. 




Out-Door Gymnasium Class. 



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SCHOOLS. 

As is usual in university towns the preparatory schools are excellent. 
The public schools show good building's, well kept grounds, carefully se- 
lected teachers, and provis- 
ion for physical as well as 
mental training, all proving 
that the city takes its schools 
seriously and deals with 
them generously. Two large 
Grammar school buildings, a 
Primary building, an Art 
Studio and a High School 
building house the 890 pu- 
pils. A. five-acre block of 
land provides a site for the 
new High school soon to be 
erected, and accommodates 
the various athletic fields. 
Here are baseball, basketball 
and football (Rugby) 
grounds, a five-lap track, a 
jumping pit and tennis 
courts. All these sports and 
the outdoor gymnasium 
work are under the supervis- 
ion and direction of a mem- 
ber of the High School fac- 
ulty employed for that pur- 
pose. Manual training has 
been introduced in the 
schools, and a complete preparatory course is given in freehand and geomet- 
rical drawing, and architectural design. Arts and crafts work in copper, brass 
and wood is also conducted in the studio. A very fine course in stenography, 
typewriting and commercial work is given in the junior and senior years 
of High school. Musical training, which runs through the whole school 
course, takes the form in the High school of a Glee club, which does good 
work under a competent instructor. Here also a number of elective courses 
are offered and care is taken to aid the pupil in preparing for his future work. 
The High school is accredited to Stanford University and the Uni- 
versity of California, its recommended graduates being admitted to either 
of these institutions without examination. The relations with Stanford 
University are close, the pupils sharing freely in many of the university 
advantages. The throngs of young people show their appreciation of this 
environment by considering themselves potential Stanfordites, and if school 
organizations, school athletics, class yells and class trousers echo the uni- 
versity rather loudly, so, too, do school work and school ideals. 




Grammar School. 



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High School. 



In addition to the public schools, Palo Alto is well supplied with good 
private institutions. Several kindergartens and children's schools are well 
patronized, but the more important schools are Manzanita, a preparatory 

school for boys, 
Miss Har-ker's 
Preparatory 
School for Girls, 
and Castilleja, a 
preparatory school 
for girls under 
Miss L o c k e y . 
These are all 
flourishing insti- 
tutions, with good 
faculties a n d 
equipment, beauti- 
ful, commodious 
buildings a n d 
ample grounds. 
The health and 
physical develop- 
ment of the young 
people are as care- 
fully considered by those in authority as their academic training. Advantage 
is taken of the climate to do much of the school work out of doors. Pupils 
coming from a more rigorous clime find keen delight in these open-air recita- 
tions and gymnasium work, as well as in outdoor sports and athletics. Castil- 
leja dormitory has an 
open-air sleeping porch 
accommodating forty. 
These schools are all 
accredited to the Cal- 
ifornia universities 
and eastern colleges. 
The pupils attend the 
public entertainments, 
lectures, plays and 
concerts given at 
Stanford and visit 
Stanford muse u m. 
The vicinity of San 
Francisco also enables 
them to hear the bet- 
ter dramas and grand 
opera under proper 
care. Primary School. 




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51 




Facades of Stanford University. 



LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY. 

Stanford University has virtually become a part of the educational system 
of Palo Alto, since a majority of the school graduates make it their goal. 

The buildings of the University stand a mile away from the western edge 
of the town of Palo Alto, pleasantly secluded by the towering eucalyptus 
trees, the oaks, redwoods and pines of the fine arboretum lying between. The 
"estate" spreads itself out over several square miles of lovely rolling country, 
as empty and wild as though railroad, trolly, settlement and town were far 
away, instead of being nestled close to the first oak-dotted foothills. 

The campus proper, however, is condensed into a few shaded streets, 
bordered with lawns and set with the homes of faculty and students, and 
the groups of massive University buildings. The center of these, about which 
the busy young life of the college ceaselessly eddies and flows, is the great 
double quadrangle. To the impressionable children of the institution these 
cloisters, so simply dignified and picturesque, these low red roofs of heavy 
tiles, the interior patio where palm and bamboo blow in the sun- 
shine — all this makes a most intimate appeal. In a special sense this becomes 
to the student the home of Alma Mater, glowing with the light that never was 
on land or sea. 

Separated a little from the quadrangles are the buildings of the Chemistry 
and Engineering departments and the low and spreading museum. The men's 
dormitory and the women's dormitory, Encina Hall and Roble Hall, lie to the 
right and the left respectively, each about a five minutes walk away, and ad- 
jacent are the two gymnasiums, with their athletic fields. 

There is, besides, an Inn for meals only, a postoffice, a book store, and 
Wilson's. The last bears witness to the popularization of education, being a 
well-appointed candy store where youths and maids may refresh themselves 
with ice cream between classes ! 

A volume would be needed to describe the inner workings of the Uni- 
versity itself, with its teaching" force of two hundred or more and its student 
body of sixteen or seventeen hundred. Indeed, such a volume is published 
annually, and may .be obtained by anyone who will write for a Register, ad- 
dressing The Registrar, Stanford University, California. Disposing thus 
lightly of the technical work of the University, a mere outline of the life of 
the place must suffice for the purposes of this sketch. 



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In brief, then, the campus comprises For its inhabitants perhaps one-third 
of the faculty and two-thirds of the students, the remainder residing, for the 
most part, in Palo Alto. This condensation of the larger part of "the Uni- 
versity" in one small center makes for an active community life and stimulates 
that dearest of student ideals, "college spirit." Encina Hall houses three hun- 
dred men, and, in spite of its lack of boarding facilities, is so popular that it has 
always a long waiting list. Encina runs itself, so to speak, its inmates consti- 
tuting the Encina club, with headquarters, business and social, in the beauti- 
ful clubroom of the Hall. Roble Hall accommodates a hundred women and is 
always full, and it, too, is organized into the "Roble club," self-governing. The 
hall has a matron and a housekeeper, and serves meals in a charming dining 
room. A second smaller women's dormitory houses about thirty. Along 
the curving street that swings about just at the base of the gentle slopes be- 
hind the University, stand perhaps twenty mansion-like larg"e houses, the 
homes of fraternities and sororities, and here goes on a happy life of congenial 
comradeship. When the stress of study lightens at the week-end, these houses, 
and the dormitories as well, form centers of social gaieties. 

Yet all is not beer and skittles, even on the laughing campus. Many of 
the students, men and women, earn their way by work of various kinds, the 
two flourishing Christian associations serving as labor bureaus to this end. In 
a western college where, moreover, wealth is not the common lot, there seems 
ro oe no snobbishness m regard to the "working student." The college democ- 
racy receives him quite as any other, provided he "make good" according to its 
general standards. 

Aside from the group activities of fraternity and dormitory, the student 
has his choice of innumerable special organizations — the English club, the 
French club, the Dramatic club, the Music clubs of many kinds, the Cosmo- 
politan club, scientific and literary clubs, debating clubs, and, of course, the 
various forms of athletic organizations. In regard to the last, the gymnasiums 
and athletic fields are alive all the afternoon with routine drill, and the many 
games and sports — ball, tennis, la crosse, racing, hurdling, and so on. The 
kindly weather of the region permits outdoor athletics, even gymnastic drill, 
most days in the year, and the students avail themselves heartily of the per- 
mission. The proximity of the University of California, Stanford's one peer on 
the coast, occasions an intense, though friendly, rivalry, which has its periodic 
climaxes in several annual contests in baseball, track athletics, debating, and, of 
course, chief of all, the November football game. 




SANTA CLARA VALLEY 




Residence of Mrs. E. S. Karns. 



HOMES. 

Palo Alto is essentially a city of homes. There are no manufactories 
within the town limits and no wholesale district. The resident business man, 
the commuter doing business in San Francisco, people seeking educational ad- 
vantages for themselves or their children, the retired business or professional 
man, and those whom the climate has enthralled, all linger and build for them- 
selves characteristic homes. 

Nowhere will one find more variety in home architecture or more beauty. 
While there are many residences stately and handsome, flanked with palms or 
peppers, the larger number are the homes of people living happily on modest 
incomes. When families practically live on their ample porches, sleep on 
sleeping balconies and entertain with garden parties an elaborately appointed 
house is not a vital necessity. Artistic bungalows abound, ranging in size 
from four rooms to ten. No two are alike, but all are charming in their set- 
ting of vines and flowers, that blossom the year 'round. So popular are these 
homes that investors have built a number of bungalows for rent, and it is 
quite possible to secure an attractive home of any desired size, furnished or 
unfurnished, at reasonable rates. Many of these are so conveniently and com- 
pactly arranged, so well finished and equipped, that in them housekeeping loses 
its drudgery. One may also find comfortable furnished apartments for tem- 
porary quarters. 

Good building lots may be bought in the city and in the city additions 
at prices ranging from $15.00 to $35.00 per front foot, according to location 
and depth of lot; the depth varies from 112 to 200 feet. Many of the lots are 



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beautiful with live oak, white oak or madrono trees, and the soil is uniformly 
good. The ease with which flowers may be cultivated and the fascinating pos- 
sibilities in the way of blossoms every clay in the year, make gardening almost 
a dissipation, and nursery work a profitable business. 

This city of homes and flowers is well fitted to guard the uncertain years 




Residence of Wm. Scofield. 



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of youth. Climate and sanitary surroundings for the physical development, 
educational advantages from kindergarten to university for mental growth, 
and a clean town for the conservation of morals. Palo Alto has no saloons, 




no vicious resorts, no "bums." The town administration is a model of honesty 
in response to a wide-awake public opinion which demands civic righteousness. 
The social life of the town is most charming. Snobbery and ostentation are 
absent. Everywhere one meets a cordial welcome, a cultured, simple hospi- 



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lality and a Eriendly helpfulness. The community is a busy one, and often finds 
thai "life is too short to he long about the forms of it," but its very informal- 
ity is one of its charms. 

OUTINGS. 

Charming as are the homes of Palo Alto, its citizens are prone to seek 
pleasure in frequent excursions. Automobile trips, horseback rides, tallyho 
parties, tramping expeditions, all find cause and favor. Fashionable resorts 
are within easy distance, but when the dweller in the Santa Clara valley wishes 
relaxation he jaunts into the Santa Cruz or the Black mountains to picnic for 
a day under the great redwoods, or spends his week-ends in a little hostelry 
in some romance-hung canyon of the near foothills. If the blood of old Nimrod 
Mows in his veins he goes duck hunting on the bay marshes in the grey chill 
of the morning. He may drive over the low range to Pescadero or Halfmoon 
Bay, quaint old Spanish seaside villages, or travel down to Carmel-by-the-Sea, 
to idle away a summer's day on its marvelous white beach of singing sands, or 
under its shadowing pines above the picturesque sand dunes. Wherever he 
goes, however he goes, always before him is the allure of mountain trail 
or perfect mountain road, always he is beckoned by the high-flying sea wraiths, 
or drawn by the heart of the wood. When summer comes he goes camping, 
sleeps under the stars, fishes for trout, hunts for deer, or loafs and invites his 
soul under the Santa Cruz redwoods or the great sugar pines of the Sierras. 

Or perhaps he fares farther afield and spends a few weeks in the marvel- 
ous Yosemite Valley. There "Curry of Palo Alto" has established "Camp 
Curry," which claims to be the largest pleasure camp in the world. Its two 
hundred and fifty tents are grouped at the foot of the towering Glacier point, 
while directly across pours and roars the magnificent Yosemite Falls. In the 
great rustic dining hall the mountain-whetted appetites are abundantly and de- 
lightfully served, while the huge evening camp fire, with its gay music and 
song, its impromptu entertainments and informal talks, draws the three or four 
hundred guests into a charmed family circle and stirs in every heart a recog- 
nition of the common mother — Nature. 

CHURCHES. 

The ancient and honorable trinity of home, school and church flourishes 
happily in Palo Alto. The churches are all in a prosperous condition, com- 
fortably housed, many of them also owning commodious parsonages. They 
are all manned by young men, full of vigor and spirit, and are a living power 
in the community. These churches work together in perfect harmony, the 
Protestant branches having a Pastors' Union, where problems and methods 
are discussed and plans made for united effort. 

The Ladies' Circles of these churches have a Fellowship committee con- 
sisting of representatives from each circle. This committee helps to unify 
the local work of the branches so that there shall be no waste effort, and 
conducts union meetings, where each circle reports on its special work and 
methods. 

All of the churches welcome strangers with a most cordial hospitality, and 
the various pastors will gladly respond to any inquiries. 



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Baptist Church. — Organized 1893. Membership 86. Auxiliary organiza- 
tions : Sunday School, Young People's Union, Ladies' Aid, Woman's 
Missionary Circle. Pastor, Rev. F. E. Morgan. 




First Congregational Church. — Organized 1900. Membership 173. Auxil- 
iary organizations: Sunday School, Men's Club, Women's Association, 
Christian Endeavor Society. Pastor, Rev. Roy H. Campbell. 

Christian Church. — Organized 1896. Membership 150. Auxiliary or- 
ganizations: Sunday School, Men's Club, Ladies' Aid Society, Women's 
Missionary Society, Christian Endeavor Society, Loyal Sons. Pastor, Dr. 
Harvey H. Guy. 



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First Methodist Episcopal Church. — Organized 1894. Membership 301. 

Auxiliary organizations : Sunday School, Brotherhood, Ladies' Aid Society, 

Woman's Missionary Societies, Epworth League. Pastor, Rev. Carl M. 
Warner. 




Presbyterian Church.— Organized 1893. Membership 282. Auxiliary 
organizations : Sunday School, Brotherhood, Woman's Circle, Christian En- 
deavor Society. Pastor, Rev. Walter Hays. 



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All Saints Church (Episcopalian) — 
Organized 1894. Membership 300. Aux- 
iliary organizations : Sunday School, St. 
Andrew's Brotherhood, All Saint's Guild 
Daughters of the King, St. Agnes Guild, 
Rector, Rev. David J. Evans. 



First Church of Christ, Scientist.— Organized 1900. Reader, Mr. Theo- 
philus Allen. 

Temple Square. — Organized 1904. Auxiliary organizations : Temple 
Builders (children). Outer Guard, J. O. Varian. 








Church St. Thomas Aquinas (Roman Catholic). — Organized 1900. Mem- 
bership 600. Auxiliary organizations: Sunday School, Guild St. Thomas 
(Men's), Ladies' Auxiliary, Sodality of the Immaculate Conception (Young 
Women). Rector, Rev. Joseph M. Gleason. 



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Unitarian Church. — Organized 1905. Auxiliary organizations: Sunday 
School, Unitarian Club (Men's), Woman's Alliance, Unity Club (Young 
People's). Pastor, Rev. Clarence Reed. 



CLUBS AND FRATERNAL ORDERS. 

The Woman's Club of Palo Alto, organized in 1894, is the oldest of 
Palo Alto's many clubs and orders. It has borne a part in the civic develop- 
ment and welfare of the town from its infancy. The Peninsula Club, an or- 
ganization of the men of the city for social purposes, is the youngest of these 
bodies. It owns its own club house and athletic grounds, and is rapidly be- 
coming a civic and social power. A local military company, part of the 
U. S. organized militia, was mustered in May, 1909, and is known as Co. 
"L," 5th Infantry National Guards California. It is composed of the young 
business men of the town, has a well equipped armory and does good work. 
An active Suffrage Club, an earnest Socialist Club, as well as numerous 
musical and dramatic organizations, enroll a number of the citizens, but it is 
in formal fraternal orders that Palo Alto carries the banner. Its 6,000 
inhabitants, or a quota thereof, conduct twenty-five of these fraternities. 
Surely any stranger coming among us may meet the particular mystic hand- 
clasp that will warm his heart. The secretaries of these bodies stand ready 
to answer any inquiries concerning the town. We give a list of the orders 
with a few statistics : 

Knights Templars, Palo Alto Commandery. — Organized 1910. Mem- 
bership 35. Thomas A. Davies, E. C. Edward AVeck, Recorder. 

Royal Arch Masons No. 93, Palo Alto Chapter. — Organized 1906. Mem- 
bership 60. Thomas A. Davies, H. P. Edward Week, Secretary. 



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Masonic Temple. 



Free and Accepted Masons, Palo Alto Lodge 346. — Organized 1902. 
Membership 150. AW B. Allen, W. M. W. C. Werry, Secretary. 

Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter No. 213. — Instituted 1903. Member- 
ship 130. Mrs. M. E. Weisshaar, W. M. Mrs. Lilian R. Porter, Secretary. 

Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 209.— Organized 1898. Membership 60. 
P. A. Stuart, C. C. A. N. Umphreys, K. of R. of S. 

Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Live Oak Lodge No. 171. — Organ- 
ized 1904. Membership 85. J. L. Simpson, N. G. H. I. Hull, Secretary. 

Degree of Rebekah, Lodge 291.— Instituted 1906. Membership 100. Mrs. 
Rose Hall, N. G. Miss Edith Westall, Secretary. 

Foresters of America, Court College City No. 215. — Organized 1903. 
Membership 70. Floyd Plerriford, Chief Ranger. W. W. Boyd, Financial 
Secretary. 

Companions of the Forest, College City Circle No. 784. — Membership 60. 
Mrs. Virginia Kellenberg, C. C. Mrs. Gertrude MacCarthy, F. S. 

Independent Order Red Men, Sagamore Tribe No. 112. — Organized 1901. 
Membership 76. Joseph Mathison, Sachem. A. A. Quinn, Secretary. 

Degree of Pocahontas, Eota Council No. 65. — Temporarily disbanded. 

Independent Order Good Templars. — Membership 15. A. W. Mills, 
Deputy. 

Independent Order Foresters. — Membership 80. Chief Ranger, A. W. 
Mills. Secretary, L. A. Weichselfelder. 

Modern Woodmen of America, Manzanita Camp No. 8738. — Organized 
1900. Membership 77. J. E. Mathison, Consul. F. W. Sherman, Clerk. 

Royal Neighbors of America, Magnolia Camp. — Organized 1909. Mem- 
bership 30. Mrs. Margaret Benoit, Oracle. Mrs. Rosecrans, Recorder. 

Fraternal Aid Association. — Organized 1899. Membership 115 bene- 



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ticiaries, 40 social. George Jacob, President. Mrs. F. W. Sherman, Secre- 
tary. 

National Union Council No. 1101.— Membership 27. J. M. McPheeters, 
President. A. N. Urnphreys, F. S. 

Woodmen of the World, Camp No. 499. — Membership 120. Rob't Comp- 
ton, C. C. Louis Dengler, Clerk. 

Native Sons of the Golden West, Palo Alto Parlor No. 216. — Organized 
1902. Membership 80. H. M. Noble, President. George Williams, Secretary. 

Native Daughters of the Golden West, El Camino Parlor No. 144. — Or- 
ganized 1903. Membership 20. Mrs. Lily Southwood, President. Mrs. 
Nellie Goodspeed, Secretary. 

Ladies of the Macabees, Palo Alto Lodge No. 68. — Membership 20. 
Mrs. Gertrude Mosher, Commander. Mrs. S. E. Baker, Secretary. 

Grand Army of the Republic, McKinley Post No. 187. — Membership 

N. S. Price, Commander. T. S. Carr, Adjutant. 

Relief Corps, McKinley Corps No. I03.--Organized 1902. Membership 

Mrs. Minnie Brown, President. Mrs. Pearl Bersie, Secretary. 

Fraternal Brotherhood. — Organized 1910. Membership 40. James Snee, 
President. 

U. P. C. E. — George Williams, President. O. Silva, Secretary. 



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CITY GOVERNMENT. 

The city of Palo Alto is governed by a Freeholders' charter, adopted by 
the people and ratified by the Legislature early in 1909. It establishes what 
is known as the Commission form of government. 

The charter vests the legislative functions, levying taxes, making appro- 
priations and appointing subordinate officers, in a city council of fifteen raera- 




Palo Alto Public Library. 



Santa clara valley 



63 



bers, elected by the people for six-year terms. Five councilmen retire from 
office every second year. The administrative functions are divided between 
three commissions — public works, public safety, library, and a board of edu- 
cation. The board of public works has charge of all construction, mainten- 
ance and repair work, and the operation of the municipal utilities. The city 
owns its own water and electric light works. The board of public safety has 
charge of police, fire and health departments. The board of public library 
has charge of the library.- These boards consist of three members each, ap- 
pointed by the council for six-year terms, one member retiring every second 
year. The board of education consists of five members elected by the people 
for five-year terms, one member retiring each year. Each of the boards ap- 




Peninsula Hospital. 



points its own subordinate officials and employes, determines their compen- 
sation and supervises expenditures. 

The council appoints an auditor, clerk, treasurer, police judge and attor- 
ney, fixes their duties, compensation and tenure of office. These terms of of- 
fice are indeterminate and the civil service policy is in vogue, although not 
legally binding. 

The council fixes the budget for all the departments, and no 
expenditures in excess of the amounts so fixed can be made without its 
approval. No debt of over $300 can be incurred, no officer appointed or re- 
moved and no ordinance passed without the affirmative vote of eight members 
of the council. The council fixes the tax rate and apportions the funds accord- 



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Post Office Building. 



ing to the budget. One section of the charter strictly prohibits all sale, vend- 
ing or delivery of intoxicating liquors within the city limits. 

The initiative, referendum and recall are provided for. No franchises may 
be granted for more than twenty-five years, and only by vote of the people. 
Municipal ownership of water, light, power, gas, railroad, telegraph, telephone, 
wharves, theaters, playgrounds and hospitals is provided for, though not yet 
put into full operation. The municipal debt is only about five per cent of the 
assessed valuation, and is evidenced by forty-year serial bonds. 

The theory of the charter is to place the control in a large representative 
council responsible to the people. The details of administration are delegated 
to small appointed boards responsible to the council and easily removable if 
inefficient or unsuitable. Terms of office are long and retirements gradual to 
guard against sudden changes of administration through temporary whims. 
Through the recall any officer may be removed for cause. The charter thus 
far has given excellent satisfaction. 

The city owns a fine water supply 
with ample fire pressure, and the 
Gamewell fire alarm system ; it gener- 
ates its own electricity for light, pow- 
er and heating purposes. Private cor- 
porations furnish telephone and street 
car service and provide gas. 

The sewer system is complete and 
satisfactory and the street improve- 
ments are extensive. Palo Alto is not 
yet twenty years old, but it shows First National Bank. 



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ten miles of paved streets, asphalt or macadam, and about twenty-five miles 
of cement sidewalks, three-fourths of the mileage of the city. The assessed 
valuation of its property for 1909 was $3,354,031.00; 1910, $3,843,215.00. 

A good Public Library is supported by a tax of one mill on the dollar, an 
effective fire company is established, and the city has free mail delivery. Two 
weekly newspapers and one daily paper are well conducted and supported. 
Palo Alto's business houses carry a large and fine stock of goods, and supply 
the needs of all the smaller towns and surrounding" country, while two banks 
handle the finances. 

Just outside the town limits is located the Peninsula hospital, which cares 
for the afflicted the length of the peninsula from San Francisco to San Jose. 
It is a handsome, commodious, fully equipped institution, especially complete 
in its arrangements and appliances for surgical work. The Maternity wing 
with its sun parlors and open air lounging rooms, is most attractive. 

Palo Alto shares with other towns in this re- 
gion peculiar climatic conditions for photographic 
work. Photography is a child of the sun, and where 
flowers bloom in the gardens all winter long and 
oranges hang on the trees the photographer finds his 
paradise. Women have been especially successful 
and happy in this work. In Palo Alto some five 
years ago two young women, Misses Wilson and 
Kelly, built an attractive bungalow studio and set 
their faces toward a photographic ideal, the realiza- 
tion of which has gained them a wide reputation. 
Their work is taking its 
place in the art world in a 
fashion to prove that, given 
the creative spirit, "pure 
photography" becomes art. 
The charming effects they 
have obtained would be im- 
possible in almost any other 
locality, for in the Santa 
Clara valley climatic condi- 
tions and light quality are 
well nigh perfect. Where Na- 
ture says at all times, "At 
your service," there will 
vital work be done. 

The railroad facilities are such that it is quite possible to live in Palo Alto 
and carry on business elsewhere in the valley. The Southern Pacific runs 
twenty or more trains each way daily, and the Interurban gives hourly ser- 
vice between Palo Alto and San Jose. 

The accompanying time table will show not only the railroad service, but 
will give some idea of the closely set towns between San Francisco and San 
Jose. 





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Manx of these advantages are common in other well regulated towns, but 
the special inducements which Palo Alto offers the homeseeker are: Good 
health, secured by unusual climatic and sanitary conditions; rare educational 
advantages; a social life, cultured, unaffected and charming; the best of church 
privileges; a clean, safe, well governed, well equipped town; vicinity to a 
large city. 



SOUTHERN PACIFIC PENINSULA SERVICE. 



SAN FRANCISCO, SAN MATEO, REDWOOD, PALO ALTO, MOUNTAIN VIEW. SANTA CLARA. SAN JOSE. 



STATIONS 



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Dally Dally Dally Daily Daily Daily El. Sun. Ex Sun Ex Sun Daily ExSun Daily Daily Daily Daily 



. SanFrinciico(3rdSt) 

. Visitacion 

. South San Francisco. 

. San Bruno 

. Millbrae 



. Burlingame. 
.San Mateo.. 
. Beresford . . . 



. San Carlos. . . , 

. Redwood 

.Fair Oaks 

. MenloPark... 

.Palo Alto 

.Mayfield 

. Mountain View 
. Sunnyvale.... 



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12 31 
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6 67 
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SAN JOSE, SANTA CLARA, PALO ALTO. REDWOOD, SAN MATEO, SAN FRANCISCO 



STATIONS 



. San Join (Market St. 

. Santa Clara 

. Lawrence 

.Sunnyvale 

. Mountain View 

.Mayfield 

.Palo Alto 

. Menlo Park 

. Fair Oaks 

. Redwood 

.San Carlos 



. Beresford 

.San Mateo 

. Burlingame 

. Easton 

. Millbrae 

. San Bruno 

.South San Francisco.. .. 

. Visitacion 

. San Francisco (3rd St.). 



4 55 

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6 14 



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11 31 
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Visitacion, 




Sunnyvale— Where Is It? 



;HIRTY-EIGHT miles from San Francisco, and midway be- 
tween Palo Alto and San Jose lies Sunnyvale, "The City of 
Destiny," and had you traveled up the Santa Clara valley 
from San Francisco toward San Jose in the year 1890, right 
where the valley opens out like a large geographical fan, you 
would have gazed upon spacious grain fields, unbroken save 
by the massive live oaks, and backed in the distance by the purple Coast 
range on the one hand, and the blue waters of the Bay of San Francisco on the 
other. Had you likewise gone in the year 1890 over the old single track ol 
the Southern Pacific railroad, you would have beheld the monotony of the 
fields broken here and there by substantial farm houses and young orchards 
shooting forth their foliage as banners of the spring. 

Go now over the splendid double track of the railway, and there would 
melt into your view among prolific full grown orchards and the massive oaks 
busy factory buildings and bulging warehouses. Such has been the passing of 
the famous old Murphy ranch of fields and sheep pastures, and the coming into 
being of the modern manufacturing city of Sunnyvale, set down midst all the 
beauties of nature. 

Flere all of the fruits of the temperate zone on the most fertile of soils up- 
hold the well earned fame of this wonderful valley for quality and productivity. 
Cherries, apricots, peaches and the world renowned prune flourish in the rich- 
est of sediment soils, producing from $175 to $600 an acre annually, according 
to conditions of the market. And also in the artesian belt, with its flowing 
wells, which geologists say are supplied with an inexhaustible supply of 
water from the Sierra Nevadas, apples and pears of excellent grade and flavor, 
and tomatoes and vegetables of numerous varieties go forth to the world mar- 
kets through the canneries of LJbby, McNeill & Libby, famous meat packers 
at Chicago, and through the Sunnyvale canneries, packers of the maraschino 
cherry. Wide fields of irrigated, sweet scented alfalfa cut from 9 to 14 tons to 
the acre each year, selling at $10 to $12 a ton unbaled in the stack. 

Sunnyvale was not in existence in 1900. A region of intense fertility must 
have a central distributing point. So, as always happens at the opportune time, 
the acute constructive spirit appeared in the person of Mr. W. E. Crossman, 
and through and over untold obstacles and hardships, was founded the town 
of Sunnyvale, which had long been known as Murphy station. It took him 
three years of hard work to get a railroad station, and now Sunnyvale has 
forty trains a day and handles freight among the foremost of the towns of 
the valley. 

When the discovery of oil for fuel purposes in our state, and the bringing 
of electricity from the mountains, assured cheap power for manufacturing, it 
was seen that Sunnyvale was an ideal place to locate factories. The modern 



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tendency has been For all large manufacturers to get away from the disturbing 
influences of the large cities and into the smaller towns nearby. In this man- 
ner they do away with petty political graft, high taxes, high insurance rates, 
due to the congestion of buildings, and all find for their workmen homes 
where they can have plenty of fresh air and those things which make life 
healthfully enjoyable, thereby making for an increased efficiency of from 25 to 
30 per cent. 

Sunnyvale is surrounded by a rich farming district, with all the facilities 
that make for convenience and lessened expense in manufacturing. Electric 
power can be had at a rate as low as 1 l-4c per kilowatt hour. Terminal 
rates bring freight to and take it from the factories at the least expense to 
shipping. There are no switching charges. The great artesian flow of waters 
in the subterranean rivers gives an abundance of water for all purposes. There 
is plenty of room, so that none need be crowded, and so that the workman 
may have plenty of natural light during working hours, thus cutting the outlay 
for artificial light to the minimum. There are no saloons, so that the laborer 
comes to his tasks fresh and able to give his greatest efforts, both mental and 




Libby, McNeill & Libby — the Best Equipped Cannery on the Coast. 



physical. The price of land is low enough so that the poorest can acquire a 
home of his own, giving him something else to work for than a mere wage. 
So, recognizing these advantages, in quick succession came the Jubilee 
Incubator Co., manufacturers of incubators, brooders and poultry supplies, sell- 
ing in every part of the world ; the Hydro-Carbon companies, makers of 
asphaltum paints and turpentine ; the Century Paint and Roofing Co., making 
felt building papers ; Madison & Bonner fruit packing house ; the Joshua Hendy 
Iron Works, the largest mining machinery manufacturers on the Pacific Coast, 
turning out mining and logging machines and general cast iron work; the 
canneries of Libby, McNeill & Libby of Chicago, the well known meat pack- 
ers, who, after an exhaustive investigation of the entire coast, selected Sunny- 
vale as the best point for fruit and vegetable canning, including catsup, sauer 
kraut and mince meat ; the Sunnyvale Canneries ; and the Johnson Tractor 




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Co., manufacturers of patent gasoline traction engines ; the McLaughlin Manu- 
facturing Co., makers of eucalyptus telephone pins, wagon hubs, plows, etc. 

Sunnyvale's factories produced in the year 1909 $3,000,000 in finished pro- 
ducts. Its land raised over $1,000,000 for the farmers. On a gross valuation 
of $5,000,000 in round figures, this is an enormous output. Figure its per- 
centage for yourself. There is something for you to think about. An income 
of $4,000,000 in one year from a city less than ten years old. Moreover, the as- 
sessed valuation has increased in four years from $10,000 to over $1,010,000. 

While Sunnyvale has been building up its material side, its people have 
not been asleep in the finer points of growth. Its schools are as good as any 
in the state. The ground is purchased and plans are being made for a high 
school so the pupil can pass from that directly into the Leland Stanford 
Jr. University, one of the greatest universities in the world. Stanford is only 
twenty minutes distant, with convenient transportation and liberal commuters' 
rates. Sunnyvale has also a 
school of Mechanical Arts, 
practical in every respect, and 
where engineers from the fac- 
tories are the instructors. At 
Santa Clara, five miles distant, 
is the old Jesuit Santa Clara 
College. One mile farther 
stands the oldest college in the 

state, the University of the Pa- Joshua Hend y Iron Work s- 

cific, and San Jose is the home of the State Normal School and the College of 
Notre Dame. Overlooking all is the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, 
one of the greatest scientific institutions in the world. 

Sunnyvale has four churches, the Methodist, Baptist, Roman Catholic 
and Congregational. Each has church buildings that are models of archi- 
tectural beauty. The following fraternal organizations are in a flourishing con- 
dition : The Sunnyvale Grange No. 331, Order of Eastern Star No. 250, 
Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 67, Royal Neighbors of America Camp No. 1179, 
Modern Woodmen of America, Stonewall Camp No. 10,113. The Woman's 
Club is a study club, active and efficient. The W. C. T. U. society has inaug- 
urated a public reading room, with papers and magazines, and a circulation of 
over 400 books. Sunnyvale has a state traveling library as well. 

They have a Chamber of Commerce and Club room, two active real estate 
companies — the Sunnyvale Land Co. and the Sunnyvale Realty and Invest- 
ment Co., with good stores, markets, etc. 

Sunnyvale is a good place for a home for a busy man. It is unique in being 
a manufacturing and a residence town without conflicting. The factories are 
located principally across the track among the trees or in fruit orchards. They 
are mostly long, low cemented buildings in Old Mission style of architecture, 
picturesquely surrounded by rose hedges, tropical plants and cultivated 
grounds. One of these has a park of five acres for the pleasure of its workmen. 
In such pleasant surroundings the men and women work and take their 
nooning. There is no dust and grime and general discomfort such as is com- 
mon in manufacturing towns. The residences, be they of the well-to-do people 



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or cottage homes, are vine-covered and rose-embowered. There are roses, 
roses, everywhere, and great variety of flowers easy of cultivation, blooming 
the year around in the open. 

Sunnyvale is in one of the most fertile regions of the famous Santa Clara 
valley. Its elevation is slightly above the general floor of the valley, rising 
gently from San Francisco bay on the north to the foothills of the Santa Cruz 
range on the south. This low ridge is an alluvial or sedimentary loam. Such 
soil mark the great fruit growing regions of the valley. To add to the agri- 
cultural resources, Sunnyvale lies within the famous "Thermal Belt," where 
vegetables grow during the entire winter. No frost reaches this section. To- 
matoes are now ripening in January, and fruits and vegetables here have all 
the freshness and delicacy of flavor of the springtime. The markets are largely 
supplied from this source during the winter season. This portion of the valley 
has some of the best land in the state for the raising of cherries. A bearing 
cherry orchard is a fortune. The soil near the bay is rich black loam, suited to the 
growth of vegetables, berries and seeds. There are hundreds of acres along 
the bay shore in this vicinity adapted to intensive farming. It is in the artes- 
ian belt, where water is cheap and plentiful. All this area of plain and foothills 
is not dependent upon irrigation. Many of the orchards are never irrigated, 
yet when trees are older it increases the crop and prolongs the season to 
irrigate. 

This valley has not had long, continual, professional advertising. The 
plain, conservative facts are all we desire to give. We do not need, to rub our 
Aladdin lamp and try to make the tourist and homeseeker see roses instead of 
cacti and sage brush. We grow the cactus plant in gardens as a sample of 
desert plants. Vegetation does not cease at the suburb of the town. The 
valley is a vast park of live oaks, while shrubs and wild fruits and flowers keep 
the landscape cheerfully green through the rainless summer season. 

For a thorough knowledge of climate and soil read Wickson's "California 
Fruits and How to Grow Them." As to climate, Bayard Taylor said that in 

all his travels he had found "no 
climate so nearly perfect, or a 
valley so beautiful, as the Santa 
Clara valley, and when you 
find old age creeping on and 
wish to extend the peaceful 
years of your life, come and 
pitch your tent in the Santa 
Clara valley near San Jose." 
That meant the park of old 
oaks in the Murphy ranch, once 
the old Spanish Rancho Pas- 
toria de las Borregas, now giv- 
en over to the homes of Sunny- 
vale people. The accompany- 
ing cut is the old Murphy home that "come 'round the horn" in 1844. It is 
occupied by a member of the Murphy family. 




The Old Murphy Homestead. 



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A Cherry Orchard Near Sunnyvale. 

People drive and walk a great deal, and live out of doors a very free and 
unconventional life. The orchard home may be a very simple cottage, or it 
may be a bungalow with large living room, library and many conveniences. 
What matters it? These homes may contain an artist, a scientist, a literary 
man or woman, a retired judge or college president. There are many country 
homes of city people with beautiful grounds and sunken gardens and country 
clubs, and the ever present automobile, which is such a joy where we have such 
fine roads. This is a desirable home for a man or woman of small means or 
for the day laborer. It does not require a great amount of capital to start 
simply, and the cost of living averages about the same as at "home." There 
are many industries suitable for women. We have women that manage 
ranches. Chicken raising is profitable. A great many women and girls work 
in the fruit canning and packing houses and in cutting- and packing fruit on the 
ranches. Wages are good. There is still cheap land and the fruit industry 
cannot die out. What is needed for success is common sense and industry. 
You cannot plant an orchard and then neglect it. You must plow and prune 
and attend to business in fruit raising as in any other business, if you wish to 
succeed; then all things are added unto you. Your mail is delivered at your 
door daily. The butcher, baker, vegetable man, milk man, laundry man, 
visits every ranch within a radius of twenty miles. What more is to be 
desired? When the day's work is done the happy ranchman can rest at ease 
with 

A book, a pipe, beneath the drooping vine, 

With fig and loaf, as well as jug of wine. 

No sighing in the wilderness — 

Oh wilderness, were Paradise enow ! 



SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 

[Tie ranchman's life need not be sordid or commonplace. Frequently one 
hears a man alter discoursing on his peach or prune crop turn to the subject 
oi ! lower culture or some experiment he is making in his business. One 
orchardist has developed a variety of fine roses. Mr. Crassemann, a nursery- 
man and florist, has specialized on a mammoth seedless cucumber of three 
varieties. The yield is immense and profitable. He ships these to San Fran- 
cisco commission houses. Mushroom beds are another man's specialty, and 
he also ships to San Francisco. Mr. Bessy of the Jubilee Incubator Co., 
aside from his extensive business has several interesting fads. Having been 
a successful poultry fancier for 35 years, he is now engaged in the breeding of 
a fin- class canary bird for the pure love of it. A visit to his home is one 
of the points of interest. Mr. F. C. Willson of the Encinal Nurseries near 
Sunnyvale some years ago originated what he calls the Willson Wonder Wal- 
nut. It is bred up from the French "Bijou," improving on its good qualities 
and eliminating its bad ones. It has borne heavily since the second year and 




WILLSON 'S 
WONDER 
WALNUT 




Natural Size Showing Kernel 

largely in clusters of from 3 to 10 nuts. It bears right along in the nursery 
row as soon as it is possible to do so on its own growth of wood, ma- 
turing nuts within 18 months after insertion of graft in seedling. The tree is 
ornamental, with broad, dark green leaves. The nut is abnormally large, with 
thin, smooth, perfectly sealed shell, well filled with exceedingly rich, sweet 
kernel. The cut gives a nut 6 3-4x5 5-8 inches in circumference. Some are 
even larger. The introduction of this nut adds much to our already profitable 
nut production. Walnuts, almonds, pecans and chestnuts are grown here. 
Our public highways are bordered by nut trees. 

But why say more? We have everything here that makes for health, 
wealth and happiness. We have many homeseekers, but there is room for 
more, so when you start for California buy your ticket via San Francisco, or 
if you chance to land in Los Angeles, get your tickets so you can remain in- 
definitely in this Happy Valley, the land of dreams come true. 

For further information, address the Chamber of Commerce, Sunnyvale, 
Calif. 



Mayfield 









RIGINALLY, Mayfield was the old Secundino Roblis Spanish 
grant. About the year 1853, a man named Crosby owned 
what is now known as the Barron place, bordering" the San 
Jose-San Francisco stage road, and named it the Mayfield 
v<J <5) ^ arm - -A* vnat time on the present townsite, stood a hotel 

J^i^-^^^^X called Uncle Jim's Cabin, and a store building, moved from 
the now new town of Ravenswood, and owned by William Paul, who surveyed 
and mapped out the town. The man Crosby petitioned for a postoffice and 
named the town Mayfield. All land now sold, is according to the Paul survey, 
which takes the form of a block T. 

The earliest settled district is located in the center of the cross section. 
Evergreen Park is at the northeastern end, and joins Palo Alto. The Sunnyside 
addition is at the southeastern terminus, and College Terrace forms the base 
of the T. The town was incorporated in 1903. 

The location is an ideal one. From the western horizon, pierced with 
tall redwood trees, on the Santa Cruz mountain range, forests mass them- 
selves on the eastern slopes. At their base the rolling foothills are studded 
with natural grown oak trees, and are broken by canyons ; the spreading grain 
fields of the Stanford farm encircle three sides of College Terrace, the cen- 
tral point of which is but five thousand feet from the center of the inner 
quadrangle of Stanford University, and is easy walking distance for the 
two hundred students who obtain excellent board in Mayfield at various 
eating club houses. The altitude on College Terrace is forty feet, sloping 
gradually to twenty-nine feet at the railroad depot. One and one-half miles 
east is San Francisco bay, stretching along the base of the Mt. Hamilton 
range, on the highest point of which Lick Observatory is plainly visible. 

Mayfield is the junction point of the Los Gatos, Santa Cruz cut-off for 
both steam and electric cars. The Southern Pacific Railroad company has 
these lines equipped with ninety-pound steel rails and double tracked between 
San Francisco and Mayfield. Sixty-two passenger trains pass through May- 
field every twenty-four hours, forty of which stop at the station. The rail- 
road time between San Francisco and Mayfield is forty-eight minutes. The 
Peninsular Electric Interurban car line runs through the center of Mayfield, 
giving hourly service. Both lines offer frequent low excursion rates. 

The facilities for shipping horses and cattle are the best. Large ship- 
ments are made each year from extensive stock farms adjacent. One hundred 
carloads of hay were shipped during the last season and five hundred carloads 
is an average during the year. Carload lots of the best celery in the world, 
dried fruits, grapes, berries, poultry, eggs, nursery stock and flowers are 
other shipping products. Dairying is extensively engaged in along the foot- 
hill section, which materially aids the business portion surrounding the old- 
est settled district, including nearly all the trades and a few professions. Vari- 



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ous orders and organizations having large memberships are represented. An 
attractive Grammar school building, well equipped, with excellent teachers, 
has a steadily increasing average attendance. Hoitt's Preparatory School 
for Boys, located in Evergreen Park, is accredited to Stanford University. 
The Mayfield Bank and Trust Company represent the solid commercial 
condition of the town and own and occupy an attractive reinforced concrete 

building in the heart of the business 
section. The deposits have doubled in 
the past two years. The Methodist 
Episcopal church, established in 1873, 
has a fine new edifice, dedicated in 
1905, and is assisted in its support by 
the Protestant population of various de- 
nominations. A Catholic church is 
also located in Mayfield. The popula- 
tion varies from twelve hundred to 
fifteen hundred. 
Mayfield has telephone and telegraph communications, and the streets 
and homes are lighted by electricity. Several miles of parked cement walks 
and curbings line the principal avenues and streets, and there are hotels, res- 
taurants and public halls. 

Many beautiful homes are in evidence. College Terrace has four small 
parks of its own, and Evergreen Park has one, all of which are improved. The 
Mayfield News owns its own printing plant and is independent in politics. 
It was established in 1886, and is one of the oldest publications on the penin- 
sula. Mayfield has a twice-daily delivery of local and city papers, a Chamber 
of Commerce, no saloons, and an auto garage. Wood for fuel and lumber 
is hauled from the hills, and is handled by local dealers. 

Mayfield owns a complete water system. The source is a well of the 
purest, most healthful water on the peninsula. The system satisfactorily 
affords protection from fire by means of the volunteer fire department. 

A thirty-five thousand dollar sewer system, installed this year is com- 
plete, thus making perfectly sanitary conditions. The assessed valuation of 
the town is seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The climate is unsur- 
passed. The mild, cool winds from the bay in summer, and the breezes from 
the Pacific ocean in winter, flowers in bloom the year 'round, hunting and 
fishing in their season, the close proximity to the richly endowed Stanford 
University, reasonable rents and easy terms on real estate, prove that May- 
field is a town of investment opportunities and for the location of ideal 
homes. 



Saratoga 



ARATOGA is a charming - little village on the Interurban 
electric line, which connects the various smaller towns of the 
valley with San Jose and San Francisco. It is situated at 
the entrance to the famous Congress Springs canyon. 
Though the town itself numbers but a few hundred inhabi- 
tants, it is the center of a large and intelligent community. 
Its freedom from saloons and their attendant evils, its good schools, numer- 
ous churches and superior class of people, have made it attractive to people of 





Home, of T. S. Montgomery. 



refinement and culture. Its beautiful scenery and delightful climate, its 
fine roads and easy access by rail to San Jose and the bay cities add to its 
attractions. 

Saratoga has become well known throughout the state, and indeed 
throughout the whole country as well, by its Annual Blossom Festival. 
For the last eleven years the people of Saratoga have invited their nature- 
loving friends to come at the time of the blossoming of the prune trees, to 
view this white and fragrant bloom from the hills about Saratoga. From 
one hundred and fifty persons who came from San Francisco and Oakland 



76 SANTA CLARA VALLEY. 

the first year, the numbers have grown to thousands, who now come from' 
near and far in cars, automobiles and carriages, to spend a day among the 
orchards and among the forest trees and wild flowers. It is a unique occasion, 
devoid oi any spirit of commercialism, exhibiting only the simple hospitality 
of the people of this beautiful region. 

There is not only poetry and beauty in these blossoms, but real wealth 
and prosperity. Saratoga orchards are among the best and the quality and 
variety of the fruit grown attest to the fertility of the soil and the fineness of 
the climate so that those seeking profitable investment as well as those look- 
ing for beautiful homes, find it here. 




Mountain View 

lOUNTAIN VIEW has a population of over 2,000 inhabi- 
tants, is eleven miles from San Jose, the county seat of 
Santa Clara county; forty miles from San Francisco, six 
miles from Leland Stanford Jr. University, nine miles 
from the University of the Pacific, eight miles from the 
famous Santa Clara College, four miles from the Bay of San 
Francisco, and three miles from the mountains, in the midst of the most 
beautiful valley that was ever made. 

Mountains surround this most charming spot, keeping off the stiff 
breezes from the sea and the warm air from the interior valleys, giving it a 
most equable climate. Mount Hamilton, crowned with the gleaming dome of 
the Lick Observatory, is to the east, while Black mountain, from which 
Mountain View takes its name, rises in majesty to the south. 

No other place has such a combination of sunshine, beautiful clays, cool 
nights the year 'round. Foothills, creeks, woods, all add to its charm, attract- 
ing homeseekers, many of whom are wealthy business men of San Francisco. 
Churches, schools, both private and public, including a fine High school, 
are on all sides. 

There is a very good railroad service to San Francisco and to San Jose. 
Comfortable trains stopping at very convenient intervals enable the com- 
muter to have his business in either city. The driving roads in this vicinity are 
considered the finest in the state. 

Among the many industries which afford a livelihood for a number of 
people, is a large printing establishment that gives steady employment to from 
seventy-five to one hundred workmen. 

The town is lighted by electricity and owns its own water system. It 
has also a lively weekly paper, edited by a live editor, one of the best banks in 
the state, and a number of good stores of all kinds. A new sewer system has 
been installed, and a fine Town Hall has lately been completed, the Public 
Library occupying a large portion of the first floor. 

Last but not least, the town has a flourishing Woman's club of forty-eight 
members, whose motto is "Toil is the price of excellence," and judging from 
the work they have accomplished for the Library as well as in civic and chari- 
table work, are trying to live up to what they profess. 



The Juvenile Court 




E Juvenile Court in and for the County of Santa Clara was 
organized early in December of the year 1905, when Judge 
M. H. Hyland, Judge J. R. Welch and Judge A. L. Rhodes,, 
presiding respectively over the three departments of the Su- 
perior court, met and selected one of their number, Judge M. 
H. Hyland, to serve as the judge of the Juvenile court, and 
also appointed the following citizens of the county to act as the "Probation 
committee," viz: Dr. A. E. Osborne, Santa Clara, chairman; J. E. Han- 
cock, Simon Saunders, Mrs. Katherine Bingham, Mrs. Florence Roberts, F. R. 
Shafter and Mrs. Katherine Brattan — all of San Jose. 

The original Act of Legislature establishing Juvenile courts in this state 
was lacking in certain effective details and ambiguous in more than one of 
its provisions. It must be borne in mind that the Act passed to the Statutes 
only after a vigorous struggle in the Legislature, during which the opponents 
forced such amendments and compromises as left it, they hoped, cpiite harm- 
less, if not wholly inoperative. It carried no provision for the payment of its 
special expenses ; it made no provision for the punishment of adults responsi- 
ble for the delinquency of minors ; upon many important matters peculiarly 
vital to the Juvenile court movement it was silent, and over all hung as a pall 
the question of its unconstitutionality. None of the judges of the Superior 
court of the state appeared to have a clear conviction as to the best course to 
pursue under the law so technically faulty, and consequently there was no uni- 
formity among those selected to preside over the newly established courts, 
either in the matter of proceedings or in the extent of their investigations. And 
this state of affairs continued until March 8, 1909, when the present law was 
enacted and approved. Since then matters have gone along more smoothly, 
and with a greater uniformity throughout the state. 

During the incumbency o ( Judge Hyland the committee acted as a sort 
of preliminary court, holding its sessions regularly in rooms secured for it in 
the Court House in San Jose, investigating all cases brought to its attention, 
sifting evidence, rearranging complaints and harmonizing discordant influ- 
ences, and by its moral power of advice and recommendation, effecting recon- 
ciliations and the betterment of the conditions surrounding the cases brought 
to its view. All its acts were subject to the court's review, approval, amend- 
ment or annulment. Sometimes the judge sat with the committee and pre- 
sided ; at other times the chairman presided, appointing different members to 
act as questioners, and, as all the hearings were held in private and the records 
kept secret from the public, each person brought before it soon realized that 
here was an effort to not only get all the facts of his delinquency or mis- 
deeds, but to give him or her absolute justice — the famous "square deal" — and 
that, too, without needless censure or demoralizing publicity. 



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Hundreds of cases passed through the Probation committee's hands, 
going the way of probation to ultimate self-control and public confidence, 
without being sent up to the judge. Intricate cases, incorrigible cases, or 
cases involving questions the committee felt it were wiser that the court should 
settle, were passed in review before Judge Hyland, and there determined. And 
finally those to whom repeated efforts to reclaim were unavailing, were rec- 
ommended for committment to Industrial State or other schools and thus 
removed from centers of local contamination. 

During this period some twenty-five hundred cases of all sorts, ranging 
from simple truancy to seduction, assault, robbery and murder, were investi- 
gated by the committee and passed upon by it or the Court. 

The second period of the history of the Juvenile court in this county dates 
from the retirement of Judge Hyland and the repeal of the Act of Legislature 
referred to. On Januray 1, 1909, Judge Hyland was succeeded on the bench 
by Judge P. F. Gosbey, who also became the judge of the Juvenile Court. On the 
8th of the following March the present Juvenile Court law went into effect, 
and a great many changes naturally resulted. The Juvenile Court now became 
a court of record, its proceedings were presided over by the judge himself, 
the Probation committee was restricted in its work to the nomination of a 
Probation officer, the management of the Detention home, when such a place 
should be established, and such other duties as in the discretion of the judge 
might be delegated to it. 

On taking the bench, Judge Gosbey reappointed the members of the Pro- 
bation committee as he found it. At all times and in all cases the members are 
courteously permitted to exercise a very wide range of advisory conduct to- 
ward the Court and its wards, so that the most intimate relationship exists 
between judge and committee. 

The Probation Officer is at present, Mr. Geo. W. Lee; the assistant, Mr. 
Walther. The offices of these officials are in the Hall of Justice building, 
San Jose. 




Women's Clubs of Santa Clara County 




E General Federation of Women's Clubs, eight hundred 
thousand strong, is a "political element" of unlimited possi- 
J/fr fir* to bilities. It has proved the value of co-operation for social, 
yvq \& pvM civic, and industrial reforms. These new currents of inter- 
ests have found the Santa Clara clubs efficient and resource- 
ful, ever awake and interested in the problems of California 
and especially of Santa Clara county. 

San Jose Clubs. 
The Monday Club, the first woman's club in San Jose, was organized in 
1882. This club is limited in membership. It is a study club. 
Other clubs were organized as follows : 

Manzanita Club 1884 

Eschscholtzia Ceramic Club 1891 

Art History Club 1892 

San Jose Woman's Club 1894 

Fortnightly Club 1899 

Young Woman's Club 1903 

Out-Door Art League :. 1906 

Collegiate Alumnae 1908 

Following these were the Short Story Club of original writers. Two col- 
ored women's clubs are engaged in philanthropic and social work for their own 
race. 

The San Jose Woman's Club is the largest in the city. It owns its own 
club house. It takes great interest in all civic work. 

The Out-Door Art League interests the public in beautifying public and 
private property. 

The Collegiate Alumnae are engaged in an anti-tuberculosis campaign. 

The County Alliance of Clubs, consisting of 12 clubs, was organized in 
1900 by the Woman's Club. Once a month an alliance meeting is held with 
the clubs furnishing the program in rotation. 

The San Jose Mothers' Association was organized in December, 1908, 
at the San Jose High school. A committee was appointed from the Mothers' 
Association to organize clubs in the grammar schools, and within three months 
two schools in the suburbs and every public school in San Jose had its Parents' 
and Teachers' club. 

The Willows Reading and Improvement Club is limited to forty members. 
It meets every Thursday. 

Santa Clara is well supplied with clubs, civic, economic and social. 

Santa Clara Woman's Club is the only federated club in the Mission town. 
This club was organized in March, 1904. Although practically a civic club, it 
frequently employs social events to accomplish its purposes. 

The Shakespeare Club was founded about eighteen years ago by graduates 
of Chautauqua and other literary women of the vicinity. 



SANTA CLARA VALLEY 



81 





A Rose-Covered Residence. 



The Santa Clara Mothers' Club has just been organized for the purpose 
of co-operating with the teachers. 

The Sunnyvale Woman's Club was organized in 1907 as a study club. 
They have made a study of California history, and are now taking a Chau- 
tauqua course. The club is a literary center for the community. 

The Mountain View Woman's Club was organized in 1904 and federated 
in 1905. The object of this association is to promote good fellowship and co- 
operation among the women of the vicinity, and to furnish a civic center for 
the discussion of questions of importance to the community ; also to afford a 
helpful and uplifting influence. 

The Woman's Improvement Club of Mayfield was organized in 1906, its 
motto, "For the Public Good." It is doing civic and literary work. Is very 
active in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the town, and pays half the ex- 
penses of a small public library. 

The Ladies' Social Club of Mayfield was organized about twelve years ago. 
It has a membership equaling that of the Woman's Improvement Club. It is 
active in social and civic work. 

The Woman's Club of Palo Alto was organized in 1894 for the purpose 
of self improvement, mutual help and community work. In 1898 the club 
united with the State Federation, and was incorporated in 1904. 

The Carnegie Library now stands as a monument to the pioneer efforts 
of the Woman's Club. Other civic work was the equipment and maintenance 
of a gymnasium, and the holding of two harvest festivals. A building- 
site is owned by the club and money is being raised for a clubhouse. 

The Mothers' and Teachers' Club was organized in 1909. Meetings 
monthly. 



Don't worry 


Just bank with the 


Jftrst Rational 


We have the best building, and the most modern and thoroughly equipped 


bank between San Francisco and San Jose. 


We have every facility for your convenience — 


Commercial and Savings 


Safe Deposit vaults 


Ladies' room with phone 


Travelers' checks, etc. 


ipirst Rational lanfe = Palo Mto, California 


Zhe SSank of ifralo Hlto 


PALO ALTO, CAL. 


Organized 1892 Commercial and Savings 


Capital, surplus and undivided profits $100,000.00 


Assets, over .'-'.-..'_ - 800,000.00 


It has always been our policy to carry a large per- 


centage of our deposits in Cash and in Reserve Banks. 


Our Policy always has been, and will be, conserva- 


tive, and to afford the people a safe Banking medium 


for the transaction of all lines of legitimate business. 


A well equipped modern Bank 


G. R. Parkinson - - - President 

C. S. Downing - - Cashier 

H. F. Congdon Asst. Cashier 



Do You Know Billy Hobson 

The Man Who Sells High 

Grade Clothing at Popular 

Prices 

Billy Hobson, 24 So. 1st Street 

SAN |OSE 

"The first taste of WILSON'S is a pleasure long remembered" 

For 13 Years 

WILSON has been trying to make better candies then any one else. 
npHE finest materials — Expert Three Stores 



candy workers — A modern 
w 

liness — Are some of the reasons Avenue Lasuen 

why WILSON'S candies are so 
good. 



PALO ALTO STANFORD SAN MATEO 

ork shop of immaculate clean- 151 Universlty Alvarado at 144 B St. 

Avenue Lasuen 

Mail orders receive careful attention 



Notice to Manufacturers 



I stand ready to make you inducements to have 
you locate your manufacturing plant at Sunnyvale. 
We now have eight large plants in Sunnyvale, valued 
at $1,000,000.00, and doing a business for 1909 of 
$3,000,000.00. Sunnyvale has a population of 2,000 
and has been in existence less than ten years. It lies 
38 miles from San Francisco on the double track main 
line of the Southern Pacific R.R.,and is a full terminal. 
There is strong reason why you should locate here. 
If you are thinking of moving your plant, let me hear 
from you. 



W. E. Crossman, founde r f 

Sunnyvale, Cal. SUNNYVALE 



HOME SACRIFICED 

$3500— Most substantially built, fine modern residence of 8 rooms; bath, 
gas, mantel and all up-to-date conveniences. Brick foundation, basement. Fine 
2-story bar//. Splendid location on cat- line in Third Ward and close to "Normal" 
and High School, San Jose. 

Jos. H. 



REAL ESTATE t^UrxCQ INSURANCE 
LOANS K"CKtn RENTS 



(&L Co. 

If you don't do bvisiness witH vis we all lose money. 

SAN JOSE SAN FRANCISCO 

T. S. Montgomery & Son 

Real Estate Insurance Loans Rents 

City Property Business Property 

Farms Alfalfa Lands 

Orchards StocK Ranches 

All around General Business Agents 
7 West Santa Clara St. SAN JOSE, CAL. 



Hotel St. James Sa t!jZiJ? 1 - 

SERVICE THE VERY BEST BETTENS BROS., Props. 

CHAS. P. BRASLAN, Pres't & General Manager. M. W. WILLIAMS, Sec'y & Treas. 

BRASLAIN &«* (grotoerg Co. 

SPECIALTIES: Carrot, Lettuce, Onion, Mustard, Parsnip, Sweet Peas, Celery, Radish. 

(grower* jfor SSIfjoIesiale ®rabe #nlj» 
360 g>outf) Jf trfit g>t. g>an lose, Cal. 



M^. C. LEAN, Jeweler 

Cor. First and San Ftrnando Sts. SAN JOSE, CAL. 

^eto gear ^uggestfton— =Cloti)tng 

If you desire to make a gift of a Suit or an Overcoat, you naturally want something that you can thoroughly rely upon for 
correct style, quality and workmanship. 

Any of your well dressed men acquaintances will direct you here for that security. If it comes from us the recipient will 
endorse your discrimination, and his pleasure in the gift will be extended over the long period of serviceability that our garments 
assure. 

Cfjao. W. itoton Company 16=22 W. g>anta Clara &L 



iWiss Harker's School for Girls 

Palo Alto, Cal. 

Home and Day 
School. Accredit- 
ed Intermediate 
and Primary De- 
partments. Music, 
Arts and Crafts, 
Home Economics, 
out- of - door life. 
Ninth year. Spring 
term begins Janu- 
ary 3, 1911. 




Ulontejuma Hetreat 

Mountain Ranch School for Boys 



College and Vocational 
Faculty Expert Leaders of Boys 
Outdoor recitations spring and fall 



E. A. ROGERS, Principal 

R. D. 29, Box 48, Los Gatos, California 



JUBILEE 




Incubators and Brooders 

Remember 

In order to make a success of the Poul- 
try business, you MUST have a 
" JUBILEE " 

Send for an illustrated Catalogue. It's 
free. 



Jubilee Incubator Co. 



Sunnyvale, Cal. 



ESTABLISHED 1867 



JAMES A. CLAYTON & CO 



INCORPORATED 



REAL ESTATE 



Property Bought and Sold. Loans placed on Good Security. 

Interest and Rents Collected. 'I A WEST SANTA CLARA ST. 

Taxes Paid. Fire Insurance. ^ SAN JOSE, CAL. 



Telephone 17 Established 1897 

G. H. ALLEN OIL CO. ^^= 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in all the Products of 

Petroleum 

Gasoline Benzine Merosene Coaling'a Crude Fviel Oil Engine Distillate 

Manufacturers of the Allen Oil Burner, the latest and most improved device for cooking and heating 

Palo $3lto Construction Co. 

General Contracting 

THE GROCERS of Palo Alto are Fuller @, Co. 

A recognized fact by all the quality livers of the city. 
"When you are to g'ive a spread, ring up 751 or 752 

Remember that — 

Mcliibben-Beal Company 

Has it when you are looking for first class furniture. Phone 12 for prompt service 



Pictures Framing Art Goods 

Embroidery Stamping 

250 University Ave. Phone 433L 

PALO ALTO, CAL. 

HYDE'S BOOKSTORE 

BooKs and Stationery Stanford Souvenirs 

166 University Ave. PALO ALTO, CAL. 




CAMP GURRY YOSEMITE 




Located Under Glacier Point 

Where the fire falls and the tent calls. The location is the most ideal ever 
known to any of its 25,000 guests. 

The Tent Capacity 

is 400, with a dining room capacity of 250 at a single sitting. The camp was 
started in 1899 with 7 tents, 290 guests and a revenue of $2,500, while in 1910 
it had 3,119 guests and a gross revenue in excess of $40,000. 

Actually the Largest Camp on Earth 

It pays its chef $200 per month and employs 10 men in its kitchen, always 
has the largest camp fires and the best impromptu entertainments and socials. 
Everybody knows his neighbor when at Camp Curry. 

Rates $2.50 per day, $15.00 per week 

Address for further information, DAVID A. CURRY, Palo Alto, Calif., 
or in the good old summer time, DAVID A. CURRY, Camp Curry, Calif. 



K. HAMILTON SIM 



ALEXANDER E. SIM 



Sunnyvale Realty 
and Investment Co. 

Real Estate, Insurance 
Loans and Rents 



Member of Sunnyvale 
Chamber of Commerce 

Phone MAIN 441 



Refer 



Donohoe, Kelly Banking Co., San Francisco, Cal 
First National Bank, San Jose, Cal. 
Bank of Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale, Cal. 



1894-1910 

Oldest Grocery Store in Palo Alto 
Known as the House of 

Quality, Progress and Accommodation 



EARLE & COMPANY 



159 University Avenue 



Phones 837 and 838 




View of Residence from Inner Court 



Casttlleja g>cf)ool 

PALO ALTO, CAL. 

Home and Day School for Girls. 
Preparatory department accredited 
at colleges East and West. Gram- 
mar and Primary grades. Boys ad- 
mitted to the Lower School. Ex- 
tensive grounds; out of door Physi- 
cal Training; tennis courts and 
basket-ball field. 

Four new buildings: Residence 
(accommodations for 40 pupils, 
sleeping porch 70x15 feet); Recita- 
tion Hall of 12 rooms; Domestic 
Science Bungalow; Gymnasium 
and audiiorium. 

Send for illustrated catalogue. 

Principal, MARY I. LOCKEY 



jUan^amta Hall 

i^alo &lto, California 

Makes a specialty of preparing boys and voung men for entrance to the 
universities. The location adjacent to Stanford University and to Palo Alto, a 
town of remarkable culture, makes possible a school life of unusual advantages 
and privileges. 

A limited number of applications can be considered for a home in the school 
during the semester beginning January 9, 191 1. 

For catalogue and specific information, address 

W. A. SHEDD, Head Master 



Keep your eye on Palo Alto 

The City of Homes 

We have neat bungalows for sale, also some very choice villa lots. We are 
also agents for the leading fire insurance companies. 

The J. J. Morris Real Estate Co. 



120 University Avenue, Palo Alto 




PALO ALTO HOTEL 

Conveniently located ::: Large sunny rooms ::: European Plan 

403 Alma Street, Palo Alto, Cal. 



Phone 462 X 



You Need Information 

of Land and Land Values in the County of Santa Clara and Lots in the City 
of Palo Alto; then send for Byxbee's Land Journal — costs you only a postal 



card. 



JOHN F. BYXBEE 



101 LYTTON AVENUE 



Palo Alto, Cal 



V. V. Harrier 



Real Estate and Insurance 



1 63 University Avenue 



Palo Alto, Cal. 



Nurseryman and Florist 

Plants and Palms, Carnations and Cut Flowers 
Contracts for growing Eucalyptus Globulus plants 
Extensive grower and shipper of three varieties of 
Mammoth Cucumbers 

Fred Krasemann Sunnyvale, Cal. 



Willson's Wonder Walnut 



Begins to bear next year after grafting — soonest possible on its own 
wood. Trees in nursery now have borne fotir consecutive crops. 
Original tree, nine years old, has borne heavily every year since second 
year after transplanting. Largest size, heaviest continuous bearer, sweetest 
kernel. See pictures in Sunnyvale write-up. 

ENCINAL NURSERIES 

Sunnyvale, Cal. 



F. C. Willson, Prop. 



Cashel Brothers 

Plumbers and Metal Workers 
200 Homer Ave., Palo Alto Phone 33 

Bixby & Lillie 

High Grade Grocers 



Crockery, Agateware, Etc. Cor ' Universit y Avenue and EmerSOn Street 

Fruits and Vegetables Palo Alto 



Springes Inc. 

Established 1865 

Qttlt #ome of #art ^cfjaKner anb fc |tSarx Clotlje* 

Santa Clara and MarKet Sts. SAN JOSE, CAL. 

THE ELECTRIC SHOP 

PALO ALTO ELECTRICAL WORKS 

LET US DO YOUR WORK 

1 30 University Ave. Phone P. A. 674 

J. E. SLOAN, Pres. & Mgr. 511 ALMA ST. Phone P. A. 78 

STANFORD AUTO AND MFG. CO. 

If you are interested in new or second hand automobiles, 
let us demonstrate to you. 



AUTO REPAIRING AUTO SUPPLIES 

The Easterday Company 

Dealers in Furniture, Rugs, Stoves, etc. Buy, Self, Rent goods — anything to 
please the people and get their money. 

336 University Ave. Palo Alto, Cal. 

well, and best of all, it tastes swell. Horwege's Bread. 

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Ice Cream and Ices 
Choice Candies 

Best b y \ e. v e r y test 
208 University Avenue Phone 673 




W. F. Pennebaker 

DEALER IN 

Furniture and Stoves 

Goods Bought, Sold or Exchanged 

538 Emerson Street 

Terms Cash — Interest at i per cent a month will 

be charged after 30 days Palo Alio, Cal. 

Congbon & Crome 

Stationers 
Booksellers 



230 University Avenue 

Jtgents S. F. Papers Palo Alto, Cal. 

Telephone 35 

F. L. Worrell 

Hay, Grain, IVood and Coal 

1 1 6 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, Cal. 




A chain of 12 Schools in 12 cities of California 

Heald's Business College 
and School of Engineering 

425 McAllister Street, San Francisco 

Send for Catalogue Branch School in San Jose 



San Jose 
Morning Mercury 

All the telegraphic news of the world; fullest local and 
coast news; live and progressive editorial page; cleanest 
sporting news; special feature pages Sunday. 

60 Cents per Month Delivered 

Every morning in the 

year' for breakfast 30 West Santa Clara Street 

The San Jose Engraving Company 



Does the highest class Half-tone work at moderate prices. 
Photographic reproductions for booklets and souvenirs a 

specialty. 
Equipment and execution equal to best metropolitan plants. 



32 Lightston Street, SAN JOSE, CALIF. 



tuart, tf)e printer 

Society and Commercial Printing 

The finer classes of printing a specialty — three-color half-tone work, wedding 
and other announcements and visiting cards. 

529 Emerson Street, Palo Alto 

PHONE 772 K 



W B. ALLEN, 

PRESIDENT & MANAGER 



TELEPHONE MAIN 65 




PAINTS, OILS&GLASS, 

SHELF HARDWARE, 

SPORTING GOODS 



STOVES & RANGES, 

GRANITE WARE, 

TINWARE 



BUILDERS-HARDWARE A SPECIALTY 



PALO ALTO, CAL. 




Elo the Eagle 



An attractively written and beautifully illustrated series of ten animal 
stories — life histories of the author's boyhood acquaintances among the wild- 
lings. It tells of how he made friends of the naturally timid creatures of the 
forest and field, coming in close touch with them, studying their habits and 
learning many interesting and instructive things, which are now presented in 
book form. 

Nearly 200 large pages, with Luxotype engraving; of each animal de- 
scribed — Elo, the Eagle, Lady Betty, the Quail, The Barred Owl, The Jay, 
Frank, the Collie, The Coyote, Dick, the Black Bear, etc. 

Postpaid, $1.00. 

Pacific Pre££ Publishing association 

Mountain View, Calif. 



RAVENSWOOD 



ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY 



Deep Water 

Railroads 

Electric Lines 

Cheap Power 

High Dry Land 



RAVENSWOOD 

HAS ALL THE 

REQUISITES 




Panama Canal 

means unlimited 

Manufacturing 

and Shipping 

Development 

¥ 

BUY 
RAVENSWOOD 
RESIDENCE 
ANDjBUSIN ESS 
PROPERTY AND 
IT WILL MAKE 
YOU MONEY 




The Home of 
FOWNES GLOVES 

BUSTER BROWN HOSE, 

LADIES' HOME JOURNAL 

PATTERNS. 



Two 

Corner 

Stores 



Women's Goods 
and Men's Goods 



The Supply Houses of Quality Merchandise 

High grade merchandise for men and women. Two 
up-to-date establishments, every department in each 
store teeming with the best products of the best mar- 
kets. Quality goods at reasonable prices. Our earnest 
endeavor is the utmost satisfaction to our customers. 



Make your Home at 

SUNNYVALE 

The Farming and Factory Center of the Peninsula 
Population 2000 





Wealth in 1909 


Output in 1909 


Factories 


$1,000,000 


$3,000,000 


Farms 


4,000,000 


1 ,000,000 



In 1909 the Southern Pacific Company transported to and from Sunnyvale 
105,000 people, and handled 19,000 tons of freight. Wells, Fargo collected 

$6000.00. 

For full information address 
Secretary Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce, 

SUNNYVALE, CAL. 




Our shoes show a combination of 
grace, style and quality. Try them. 



3^v5aXS 



Your Choice of Routes 
When Going East 



San Francisco 
"Overland Limited" 

Three days to Chicago via Ogden and Union Pacific. 



The Golden State Limited 

Via El Paso and the El Paso Rock Island Route. A beautiful 
trip down the Coast Line through Southern California. 



The New Orleans Express 

Via New Orleans and thence by rail or via the elegant Southern 
Pacific New Orleans-New York steamers. Through tourist sleepers 
to Washington, D. C, without change. 



L. LITTLE, Agent, Palo Alto, California 
E. SHILLINGSBURG, District Passenger Agent, San Jose, Calif orni; 



Southern Pacific 



One copy del. to Cat. Div. 



M 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



017 139 572 



Ranches 



in the Santa Clara and in 
the San Joaquin Valleys. 
Fruit, alfalfa and vege- 
table land. 



Homesites 



near Palo Alto and 
Stanford University. 
An ideal home en- 
vironment. 



Co-operative Land & Trust 
Company 

"Lands That Produce Wealth" 

203 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO 
595 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO 

137 SO. MARKET STREET, SAN JOSE 

321 LISSNER BUILDING, LOS ANGELES 

540 CANAL STREET, MERCED 



